The film finds its tongue (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
000209
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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SCIENCE AND SHOWMAN 165 then the pictures it made were "long shots." But the movie men demanded "close ups." The camera had to be got silent. This could be done either by making the instrument itself noiseless, or by enclosing it in a sound-proof booth. Of these remedies the first was much the more preferable. And if, as this is written three and a half years later, any one will step forward with a practical silent motion picture camera he will collect reward beyond dream of avarice for his invention. No one has achieved it yet. The motion picture camera is a device for moving a reel of sensitized photographic film past a lens, halting it there sixteen separate times during the passage of every foot (ninety feet a minute); halting it just long enough for a photographic exposure to be made. Its whole secret is in that intermittent motion, that starting and stopping the film hundreds of times a minute. If it ran past continuously the exposures would be blurred. And though it is machined to the delicacy of a chronometer, there is still a little chuckle as it does its work. It will not be still. The sound-proof booth, then, was the only