International photographer (Jan-Dec 1935)

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND CRAFTS Vol. 7 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, APRIL, 1935 No. 3 Silas Edgar Snyder, Editor-in-Chief Earl Theisen and Charles Felstead, Associate Editors Lewis W. Physioc, Fred Westerberc, Technical Editors John Corydon Hill, Art Editor Helen Boyce, Business Manager A Monthly Publication Dedicated to the Advancement of Cinematography in All Its Branches; Professional and Amateur; Photography; Laboratory and Processing, Film Editing, Sound Recording, Projection, Pictorialists. CONTENTS Front Cover Still by G. W. (Billy) Bitzer FRONTISPIECE ------------ 1 President Homer G. tasker, President S.M.P.E. CINEMATOGRAPHER'S BOOK OF TABLES ---- 3 By Fred Westerberg "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" IN RETROSPECT 4 By Seymour Stern PERMANIZING MOTION PICTURE FILM ---- 6 By Commander W. H. Pashley, U.S.N. RECENT PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOUND PATENTS 7 By Robert Fuliinder FLASHES FROM THE COLOR FRONT 8 By //. O. Stechan MOTION PICTURE SOUND RECORDING ----- n By Charles Felstead THE OLD TIMER ---- 12 By Earl Theisen MAX FACTORS LATEST DISCOVERY ----- 13 NOTES ON COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY ------ 14 By Karl A. Barleben, Jr., F.R.P.S. CINEMACARONI ----------- h By Robert Tobey SCRIPT TO SCREEN ---------- 17 By the Editor MINIATURE CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY ----- 18 By Augustus Wolfman THE SPEED OF LENSES --------- 20 By F. M. St c adman MORE ABOUT THE CROSENE COLOR PROCESS 22 By Silvio del Sarto THE FILM INDUSTRY SOLVES ANOTHER PROBLEM 25 By Kay Campbell CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING -------- 30 THE ONE MAN LABORATORY ------- 33 By William Beiri Entered as second class matter Sept. 30, 1930, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1934 by Local 659, I. A. T. S. E. and M. P. M. O. of the United States and Canada Office of publication, 1605 North Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, California GLadstone 3235 James J. Finn, 1 West 47th St., New York, Eastern Representative McGill's, 179 and 218 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Australian and New Zealand agents. Subscription Rates — United States and Canada, $2 a year. Single copies, 25 cents. This Magazine represents the entire personnel ot photographers now engaged in professional production of motion pictures in the United States and Canada. Thus THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER becomes the voice of the Entire Craft, covering a field that reaches from coast to coast across North America. Printed in the U. S. A. at Hollywood, California so^CgEBS SERVICE ENGRAVING CO PROSPECTS FOR MAY Charles P. Boyle, clever creator and editor of that delightful page, "Out of Focus," is expected to return soon. Lewis W. Physioc, Technical Editor, will tell cf the beginnings of cameramen's organizations in America. Associate Editor Charles Felstead will continue his distinguished articles on Motion Picture Sound Recording. Earl Theisen, Associate Editor, will get back to first principles and give his readers a real bit of motion picture history. The Crosene Color Process will continue to elucidate the details of its system from angles of projection technique and the camera. Augustus Wolfman will address his steadily increasing clientele with another enlightening article on Miniature Camera Photography. Robert Tobey, inventor of "Cinemacaroni," is making new friends with each installment. Have you read the great Hollywood mystery story yet? Paul R. Harmer will be back in the fold soon, but not in May, with part one of a series of three stories that will be of great interest to the cameramen who want to know something of under-sea stuff. Karl A. Barleben, Jr., F.R.P.S., will contribute "The Man Behind the Camera." If the amateur wants to know how to make pictures and not merely to devote his time in technical research this article will be of great help to him. Please mention The International Photographer when corresponding with advertisers.