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MANAGERS AND PROJECTIONISTS
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open, raise the automatic fire shutter and project the film title to the screen. If the hole in the dowser be not too large (l/% inch in diameter ought to do the trick all right) there will be absolutely no danger of injury to the film, and at the same time the title will appear on the screen plenty plain enough to be read by the audience. It is a much better plan than using a stereopticon slide.
Our reason for advising a leader and tail-piece on multiple reel features is found in the fact that whereas they will slightly inconvenience the projectionist of the large theatre, who joins his 1,000 foot reels together in 2,000 foot reels, they will be very necessary to the projectionist who projects from 1,000 foot reels.
AN OPAQUE TAIL-PIECE is of great importance, because we know of nothing in all the realm of projection so thoroughly disillusioning as the flashing of white light on the screen at the end of a reel. The careful, competent projectionist will stop his projector, or will change over to the other projector before the end of the reel comes. This man will
Figure 79A.
Graphic illustration of a reel rightly rewound A, which may only be done by applying considerable and even brake friction to the reel from which the film is being rewound, and a reel improperly rewound, which means without the tension supplied by brake action on reel from which film is being wound. Film rewound as per reel B is liable to serious damage in several ways. It is "pulling down" to tighten films rewound as per B which causes nine-tenths of the "rain."