International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

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Eighteen The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER May, 1929 Reginald E. Lyons Now Photographing Vitaphone Productions Warner Bros. J. R. LOCKWOOD Camera Rentals Business Phone 1108 N. Lillian Way (ilia nil. 3177 Cor. Santa Monica Kesideiu-e Phone: Douglas 3361 -TV CAMERA RENTALS AU Kinds PARK J. RIES 1152 N. Western GRanite 1185 Richter Photo Service Movie and Still Cameras for Rent Still Finishing 7764 Santa Monica Boulevard HO. 9750 HE. 1780 King Charney says . . . Whether it be carbon or incandescent lighting Whether it be talkies or silent Insist upon Negative For definite results AGFA RAW FILM CORPORATION Alfred Weiss, Pres. New York Hollywood Future Possibilities of Recording Sound [ Continued from Page 11] ture. These noises are not so serious and can usually be readily corrected during the showing. However, it is almost impossible to correct difficulties after a disc is once started. During the showing of film with filmrecording it is apparent that the picture size is out of proportion as compared with the silent picture. This condition has been rectified in many theatres by the use of special apertures and also additional lenses. It is possible, in the future, that the film width may be extended so as to allow for space for the sound track on motion picture film. This method of recording with sound on special film has not yet been put into practice, but we are advised that in the near future some such method will be adopted by producers. This, of course, would necessitate a special projection machine. A Glassless Booth Brother Joseph Walker, at the Columbia studios, has designed and is using in production a sound booth in which the glass front (which has ever been a source of annoyance to all sound cinematographers) is replaced by a solid front. A hole is cut through the front to admit the matte box which is padded all around with hair felt and gum rubber. There are small glass windows for the finder and for the operator to sight through. The change has brought about a noticeable increase in brilliance as it is well known that in booths using glass windows a certain amount of diffusion and lack of brilliance is the result. Brother Jackson Rose, now shooting "Life" for Tiffany-Stahl, is at work on one of the largest and most elaborate sets ever constructed by that company. The principal scene was the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with the Metropolitan Opera Company singing the opera "Faust" accompanied by an orchestra of fifty pieces. It was all shot in sound of course and Brother Rose had associated with him the following named first cameramen — Billy Tuers, Harry Jackson, Jack MacKenzie, James Brown, Kenneth Peach, assisted by Jeff Gibbons, Rube Boyce, Stanley Horsley, Jess Ivey, Phil Moore, Eric DeBrath. James Flood is directing. A Fearless Product The Cinema Equipment Company, through Manager Ralph Fear, reports the successful installation and operation of a Fearless Simplex Automatic Developing Machine in the laboratories of the M-G-M studio at Culver City. This remarkable machine is the result of seven years' of experimental work and its perfect performance under the most drastic tests possible to present day laboratory practice proclaims it an important contribution to the economic side of motion picture production. The manufacturers claim for the new machine the greatest possible simplicity in that it is of vertical, straight line construction and without gears, sprockets, compensating rollers, etc. It is absolutely free from film breakage risk other than that caused by imperfect splicing as the fault of the owner of the film before delivering it to the machine. Because of its simplicity of construction the manufacturers claim for it the lowest possible cost in maintenance and operation and guarantee it absolutely against breakage or damage to film. It will handle 130 to 220 feet per minute, the machine being of duplex construction and, therefore, double the capacity of any other machine. The temperature in the dry box is thermostatically controlled. Numerous air squeegees remove the surface moisture from the film and largely eliminating the mixing of one solution with another. It will also handle 16 M.M. film. Another exclusive feature is that all the mechanism over the tanks can be removed and a new machine installed ready for operation within fifteen minutes. The Fearless Simplex Automatic Developing Machine is forty feet long, is grease and oil tight and has positive speed control. The Cinema Equipment Company reports a shop running at capacity speed and great activity in the movement of their several products especially Sound Track Recording Machines and High Speed Silent Movements. Leroy Greiner successfully weathered the storm of "flu" that recently swept his handsome anatomy and will be strong enough to thread his camera again before this issue of The International Photographer is off the press. Engineering, Design, Construction OF Special Motion Picture Mechanisms and Equipment Phone GLadstone 9286 1017 North Sycamore Avenue Hollywood, California