International projectionist (Jan-Dec 1945)

can be eliminated almost completely In tin application of a renewable lacquer. Acknowledgment The writer wishes to express his sincere appreciation to Dr. E. K. Carver for his many helpful suggestions and for continued guidance in the preparation of the paper, and to the various members of the film-testing departments of the Eastman Kodak Company for their contributions. DISCUSSION Mr. Herbert Griffin: The paper is now open for discussion. Mr. M. S. Leshing: A few years ago the Eastman people advocated a protective lacquer treatment of negative film right after processing. After a period of time the question of the lacquer died. What happened to it? Mr. Talbot to Mr. D. E. Hyndman: Don, would you like to answer that question? Mr. Hyndman: To my knowledge the Eastman Kodak Company, as a policy, did advocate applying a protective lacquer to either processed positive or negative film, but the use of it was never discouraged. Mr. Leshing: The reason. I think, that the Kodak Company planned using a lacquer is shown by the fact that Mr. Capstaff was, as he told us, providing the developing machine in the Kodak Research Laboratories with a special cabinet for applying the lacquer to the negatives. Mr. Hyndman: The only answer f can give would be my personal opinion. The Eastman Kodak Company has sold and delivered lacquer to anyone desiring it. It was and is still used mainly by the Ace Film Laboratories in Brooklyn, New York. It has used lacquer for a period of years. I have inspected, personally, negatives on which lacquer has been applied. After 475 release prints have been struck from the negative, the lacquer was removed. The concensus of opinion was that the negative looked practically as good as before printing, for this reason Ace Film Laboratories, Inc., continued to use the lacquer. We would sell the lacquer to anyone who wishes it, but we have not tried to thrust its use on any concern. It is available. Mr. Talbot: As a service of the Kodak Company we will provide specific recommendations on equipment to apply the lacquer. Mr. Paul Allen: It seems to me that the industry is missing an opportunity. If it would purchase 30,000 sprockets at about 1150,000, it would save about half of the film cost. There are the facts that should be presented. Mr. Griffin : As a representative of the company mentioned, the International Projector Corp.. probably one of the largest manufacturers of sprockets in the world, I have been most interested in this subject for many, many years and am heartily in accord with what this paper has shown. As a matter of fact I presented the same type of paper in the past which I read before ...For Top-Flight Performance— In realism of image and naturalness of sound these trouble-free, streamlined aces of the projection booth exceed the demands of the most critical audiences. They are built to standards far in excess of those generally accepted for motion picture sound equipment . . . Priced to enable ANY theater to afford NEW equipment . . . DeVRY knowhow engineering, teamed with DeVRY precision methods in parts production and assembly, assures theater projection that is flicker-free, shadowless and steady as a searchlight . . . Top-flight performance for either black-and-white newsreel or technicolor feature . . . Your DeVRY includes a synchronized built-in Sound-Head. DeVRY has the world's most complete peacetime line of motion picture sound equipment. Also HI-Fidelity Theater Amplifiers and Multi-Cellular Speakers. Before you buy, mail coupon to DeVE.Y . . . 5 Time Winner DeVRY alone has been awarded five consecutive Army~Navy E's for Excellence in the production oj Motion Picture Sound Equipment. r DeVRY CORPORATION, Dept. IPJ-B12 1111 Armimge Ave., Chicago 14, Illinois Please send details about the NEW DrVRY 35mm Theater Projectots . . .Amplifiers and Speaker Systems. . State . Theater Capacity . ._J DECEMBER 1945 27