The international photographer (Jan-Dec 1932)

Twenty-six The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER August, 1932 sign and accounts for the superior results obtained on this printer. In the old type sprocket printers the films, being of different lengths, were forced to slip past each other, thus blurring the high frequencies and often introducing the so-called sprocket noise in spite of the most careful adjustment. Shrinkage Compensated While they were, in general, good enough for 35mm., it should be remembered that the definition required for 16mm. is two and one-half times that for 35mm. and the shrinkage of 16mm. safety film negative is several times as much as 35mm. negative. In the WoodWatson printer the shrinkage of the negative is automatically compensated exactly to fit the positive and there is no tendency for the films either to creep or lose contact. This insures the best possible printing in the simplest way. What appeared at first to be a very difficult process now becomes simple and available to every laboratory. Existing 35mm. sound productions can be reduced to fit the 16mm. requirements, also 35mm. silent productions can be re-edited and adapted to the 16mm. sound-on-film projectors either by preparing a 35mm. sound track negative and rerecording or having a 16mm. sound track negative recorded direct for the silent production. The adaptation and use of such 16mm. sound-on-film editions will be quite apparent to the industrial producer looking for new markets and to retain his old ones. Cameras and Projectors for 8mm. Eastman Will Introduce During August Two Types of Projectors and One of Camera Employing 16mm. Width of Stock AMOTION PICTURE camera that quadruples the number of images recorded on a given length 16mm. film and thereby makes every foot of film go four times as far is to be introduced during August by the Eastman Kodak Company. Small enough to fit in a coat pocket, the newly designed Cine-Kodak Eight holds 25 feet of 16mm. film, but takes enough pictures on that length to run four minutes on the screen — equal to the projection of 100 feet exposed in other cameras using 16mm. film. The Cine-Kodak eight will save those who use it nearly two-thirds of film cost, it is stated by the manufacturers. The development in home pictures is consistent with an Eastman policy effective since the early eighties — reduction of the expense of amateur photography to make it available to an increasingly large group without sacrificing the interests of "advanced amateurs" who desire to continue using the more elaborate equipment. The Cline-Kodak eight, equipped with a Kodak Anastigmat F3.5 lens, is the lighest, smallest motion picture camera with a film capacity permitting four minutes of projection. The low cost of both the apparatus and the film, together with the compactness and simplicity of the equipment at what is declared to be no sacrifice of convenience, promise that the Cine-Kodak eight will find wide acceptance among the large group of persons who wish to make pictures but who feel they cannot afford the special features of 16mm. equipment. 25-Foot Film The quality of the result is pronounced very high by persons who have seen them projected in Rochester. More than two years of direct experimentation have preceded the appearance on the market. There is a new method of distributing on the film the sixteen photographic images taken a second. The camera loads with a 25-foot roll of special 16mm. film, but it exposes only half the width of the film at a time, recording a series of complete images on each half. When the 25 feet have run through once the spool containing the film is removed and placed on the supply spindle. The other half of the film is then exposed. The width of each image being thus reduced by half, the height is similarly reduced and the number of images down the length of the film is doubled in consequence. Each exposed half of the 25-foot roll contains, therefore,, as many pictures as a 50-foot roll exposed in other cameras using 16mm. film, and the whole 25-foot roll contains as many pictures as 100 feet from the larger home movie cameras. When the exposed film reaches a processing station it is processed, slit down the middle, spliced end-to-end, and then returned as a 50-foot reel of 8mm. film with perforations down one side. Perforations on the special film for the Cine-Kodak eight are spaced half as far apart as on other 16mm. film. The special 25-foot rolls of 16mm. film have an extremely fine-grained panchromatic emulsion that assures a clear, sparkling screen image in spite of great magnification. A black coating on the back of the film reduces the possibility of halation. The film rolls are small enough so that several may be carried conveniently in a pocket. Will Split 16mm. Film As in the case of other 16mm. film the price of rolls for the Cine-Kodak eight will include processing — and also the additional work of slitting and splicing the 16mm. width into 8mm. Two Kodascope Eights have been designed for the projection of the new size film. They will be put on the market simultaneously with the cameras. The Kodascope Eight, Model 60, is equipped with a 100-watt pre-focussed projection lamp with a decentered filament. An efficient optical system gives brilliant pictures on the 22 by 30 screen. The projection lens has a focal length of one inch. A highspeed motor-driven rewind requiring no changing of belts or reels, and provision for plugging in a table lamp to turn on automatically when the projector is turned off are other features. The Kodascope Eight, Model 20, also has a one-inch lens. It is equipped with a dependable lamp for adequate illumination. The size of both projectors permits very easy carrying. As in the case of full-width 16mm. movies, titles will be available for splicing into film exposed in the Cine' Kodak eight. Miscellaneous successful professional motion pictures for showing with the Kodascope Eight also will be prepared, under the name "Cinegraph Eight." Advertising Agency Plans To Preserve Air Programs LORD & THOMAS, advertising agencv. has purchased special phonograph disc recording and reproducing apparatus from RCA Victor. The firm plans to make disc records of the Lucky Strike programs with the new a^^aratus, as an inexpensive means of ^reserving the programs exactly as they go out on the air. This permanent file is expected to prove especially valuable to the agency and its client because it permits of frequent rehearings whenever it is desired to analyze a program or studv the microphone technique of the artists appearing. This is the first agency to take this means of preserving radio programs for future reference. Previously the new recording equipment has been found useful in recording accurate evidence for court and police work. Attendance and Admissions Slip Heavily in Hamburg IN Hamburg, Germany, cinema attendance in March and April, 1931, totaled 1,306.824 and 1,330,113 persons respectively. These totals decreased to 1,070,520 and 1,007,329 persons during the corresponding months of this year, or losses of 20 and 25 per cent, respectively. To judge the full import of these figures it must be considered that as compared with last year admission prices have suffered* a general decrease of about 25 per cent.