International projectionist (Jan 1963-June 1965)

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European movie goers are being treated to a new "avant-garde" motion picture technique in which live actors play their roles side-by-side with their own or other actors' filmed images. It's of interest to the IA and projectionists generally because it shows how far their craft might progress in the years to come. Fred Warendorp, projectionist, is shown with the two Strong Constellation projection arc lamps and two Strong Trouper carbon arc follow spotlights installed in the new Mai Kai ("The World's Most Beautiful Theatre in Livonia") which opened recently in the Detroit suburb at Plymouth and Farmington Roads. Stage attractions and orchestra, as well as the screen-fare, were featured in advertising, as was the "giant screen" and direct radio broadcasts. Literature on this type of equipment will be sent to any reader addressing The Strong Electric Corp., 31 City Park Ave., Toledo 1, Ohio. New Motion Picture Technique May Bring Complex Developments for Projectionists Frantisek Pilat. Czechoslovak Film Corp., Praha, Czechoslovakia, has described "Magic Lantern" ("Laterna Magica" ) , a new art entertainment form in which, for example, a living ballet dancer might dance with a film partner. According to Pilat, the actor's action is "inseparably combined with the motion picture," giving the impression that both are live performers. Pilat also described "Poiyecran," another new art form, which involves simultaneous exposure to the viewer of eight screens, each carrying a different image tied in with the central theme of the artistic presentation. According to Pilat, "The new technology of wide-angle and panoramic motion pictures renders it impossible for the artists to use a quick composition of shots, large close-ups or rapid panning movements of the camera, ie, to take advantage of the principal and specific means of motion picture art. Experience has shown, that the more the spectator is surrounded by the projection screen, the narrower is the choice of dramatic material, which can be reproduced with the aid of these new technical devices. ASHCRAFT CORE-LIGHT SUPER CINEX CINEX SPECIAL PROJECTION LAMPS And HIGH RECTANCE MULTI-PHASE RECTIFIERS World's Standard of Projection Excellence "In order to eliminate these disadvantages of wide-angle motion pictures, extensive experiments have been carried out by artists and technicians in Czechoslovakia in an effort to create a new type of film show by means of a simultaneous projection system employing projection screens, which, though variously arranged in space, are in direct connection with one another. "The screens are of different size and differently inclined towards one another. On to those screens the picture from the film projectors or slide projectors is projected. The picture is accompanied by sound, which is reproduced over loudspeakers placed behind the various screens and also over loudspeakers suitably accommodated in the auditorium. The projected picture, which completely fills the spectator's field of view, creates interrelated impressions and their synthesis produces in the spectator's brain a unified image. "To suit the action shown, one screen only is sometimes projected upon, the action spreading later gradually to further screens. At other occasions identical pictures are shown on several screens; sometimes the overall picture is on the main screen and the closeups on the flanking screens; black-and-white film is combined with colored film, static projection with film projection, etc. "Numerous shows produced for 'Poiyecran' have proved that it is an unusually adaptable means of expression for a new form of motion picture art. It has also been proved that the spectators, who number more than two million so far, have no difficulties in grasping the artist's aims and the structure of the action or story, even if it proceeds on a plurality of screens simultaneously." if? PROJECTIONISTS PREFER ETHYLOID Film Cement For BEST RESULTS Available from Supply dealers FISHER MFG. CO. 1185 Mr. Read Blvd. Rochester, N.Y. 16 International Projectionist August, 1963