Hollywood Filmograph (Jun-Aug 1929)

26 New Invention Gives Pictures Extra Wide Projection Stereoscopic Illusion Is Result and Standard 35 mm Film and Projector Used What is perhaps the most stupendous achievement of recent years is embodied in a new type of motion picture that gives a projected image on the screen that is twice as wide as the present pictures. However, the most notable feature is that this is accomplished on standard 35 mm. film. Not only is this wide picture photographed through standard cameras, but is projected on the screen through standard projectors. This picture produces a stereoscopic illusion that is startling in its realism. This new type picture, the invention of Ralph G. Fear, head of the Cinema Equipment Co. of Hollywood, is the outstanding accomplishment of one of Filmdom's pioneer engineers. "With slight alterations to cameras and projectors," says Mr. Fear, "all of the various studio, laboratory, and theatre equipment now in general use is employed in this new method. By reason of this it is possible for producers to go into production with this new picture in a few days' time." Continuing, Mr. Fear says, "The double-width or 70 mm. film that some of the producers are experimenting with is ideal photographically, but its use necessitates the complete scrapping of every bit of equipment now in studios, film laboratories, and theatres throughout the world. The scrapping of millions of dollars' worth of present equipment and the construction of new equipment of larger size represents such an economic waste that it is unthinkable that it can ever come into general use." The chief points of importance in this new invention are summarized as follows: 1. Gives a picture on the film that is approximately %xl% inches and does it on standard 35 mm. film. 'THE TALK OF NEW YORK" IS TOLD OF BY THE STAR OF "THE TALK OF HOLLYWOOD" <♦ DE LUXE MEN'S TAILORS 4 ► 1 ► Messrs. Angrist-Califra : I always feel well dressed when I'm in Angrist-Califra clothes. WM. DEMAREST. H ► » William Demarest ANGRIST-CALIFRA Star of Pictures and Vaudeville 39 West 46th Street NEW YORK CITY Bryant 5207 2. Gives a more natural picture on the screen because it more nearly approaches the normal angles as seen by the human eye. 3. Gives a sound track that is twice as long as the present sound track, therefore gives greater sensitivity in recording because the sound record for each vibration is twice as long. 4. Gives a wider sound track for recording sound on film which improves the actual sound record. 5. The most vital feature is that ALL of the equipment now in use in studios, film laboratories, and theatres can be used for this new picture. There is no question but what the wide picture is the next step forward in motion pictures. While the doublewidth or 70 mm. film is correctly proportioned, the cost of scrapping all present equipment and replacing it with larger equipment to accommodate the double-width film represents such a stupendous monetary loss that the keenest minds in the industry feel that it can never come into general use. However, the method invented by Mr. Fear for achieving wide pictures on standard 35 mm. film, for the relatively small cost of converting present cameras and projectors, is in the nature of a life saver for producers, film laboratories, and exhibitors who have contemplated, with considerable dismay, the prospects of having to completely change over their present equipment to accommodate the double-width film. i 1 1 Producer-Equity Peace Looms (Continued from Page 19) AGRETMENT made this sixteenth day of October, 1928, by and between the representatives of the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of A m e r i ca , International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators of the United States and Canada, and the Producers whose signatures are appended hereto. The base rates as now established for members of the said unions employed by the Producers in California shall be twenty-five (25) cents a day in excess of the present rates, from May 1, 1929 to May 1, 1930; fifty (50) cents a day in excess of the present rates from May 1, 1930. to May 1, 1931, and seventy-five (75) cents a day in excess of the present rates from May 1, 1931, to November 29, 1931. International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, by Chas. E. Lessing; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, by A. W. Muir; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, by A. W. Mclntyre for J. P. Noonan, Pres.; International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators of the August 3, 1929 United States and Canada, by Wml F. Canavan; Universal Pictures Cor> poration, by R. H. Cochrane, VicePresident; Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Corporation, by N. M Schenck, President; Fox Film Cor poration. by Jack Leo, Vice-President First National Pictures, Inc., by W. C. Boothby, Controller-Treasurer; Famous-Players-Lasky Corporation, by S. R. Kent, General Manager; F. B. O. Studios, Inc., by C. J. Scollard, Treasurer, J. I. Schnitzer, Vice-President; Pathe Exchange, Inc., By Colvin W. Brown, Executive Vice-President; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., by Albert Warner. Vice-President; Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., by E. W. Hammons, President. This agreement made the 29th day of November, 1926, between the unions named therein and the producers named therein is hereby renewed for a period of three (3) years from the 29th day of November, 1928, subject to all the terms and conditions thereof and to any agreements between the parties which have been made since the 29th day of November, 1926. International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, by Charles E. Lessing; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, by A. W. Muir; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, by A. W. Mclntyre for J. P. Noonan. Pres.; American Federation of Musicians, by Joe. N. Weber, Pres.; International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators of the United States and Canada, by Wm. F. Canavan; Universal Pictures Corp., by R. H. Cochrane, Vice-president; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., by N. M. Schenck, President; Fox Film Corp., by Jack Leo, Vice-President; First National Pictures, Inc., by W. C. Boothby, Controller-Treasurer; Famous Players Lasky Corporation, by S. R. Kent, General Manager; F. B. O. Studios, Inc.. by J. I. Schnitzer, Vice-President, C J. Scollard, Treas.; Pathe Exchange, Inc., by Colvin W. Brown, Executive Vice-President; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., by Albert Warner, Vice-President; Educational Film Exchange, Inc., by E. W. Hammons, President. 0< ON THE COVERKATHLEEN CLIFFORD Miss Clifford, who has been starred or featured in New York and London by Ziegfeld, the Shuberts, Klaw and Erlanger, Al Woods, Harry Frazee, C. B. Dillingham, Henry W. Savage, and Sir Arthur Butt, is indeed an international star of the stage and screen. Miss Clifford is also a vaudeville headliner who is known from coast to coast. Her voice, experience, and personality have placed her in an enviable position since the advent of the talkies. COMING EXCELATONE H. M. HORKHEIMER, Pres.