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INTERNATIONAL
0JECTI0NIS1I
With Which Is Combined Projection Engineering
HENRY B. SELLWOOD, Editor
Volume 21
FEBRUARY 1946
Number 2
Index and Monthly Chat
Some Physical Properties of Film Relating to Image Stability . . 7 R. H. Talbot
The New Ampro 16-mm
Projector, II 12
Leroy Chadbourne
We See Upside Down 14
Acetate vs. Nitrate Issue Revived 15
Basic Design Determines Projector Performance Arthur E. Meyer
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In the Spotlight 18
Harry Sherman
Projection Lens Aberrations . 20 Angelo Montani
Basic Radio and Television Course
XX — Transmitters 22
M. Berinsky
At Your Service 25
Telecasts 29
Plastic Substitute for Optical
Glass Seen 30
I. A. Elections 32
News Notes
Technical Hints
Miscellaneous Items
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MONTHLY CHAT
pMLM exhibitors have never been con' spicuous for their interest in the technological standards of the industry— unless and until some topic bearing, however remotely, on theatre manpower hoves into view. When this happens, every exhibitor in America essays the role of a Ph.D. in science — all the sciences— usually with ludicrous results.
The current exhibitor bleat in behalf of acetate film makes them hammier than ever. We don't object to exhibitors sounding off; but we do think that the prestige of the industry demands that they obtain competent technical advice before they cuff people around. The M.P.T.O.A. is welcome to the data anent the acetate vs. nitrate topic presented elsewhere in this issue — without charge.
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The M.P.T.O.A. might better give serious consideration to other — and, we think, more pressing — problems currently confronting the industry, notably the threat to the box-office of television and of the projected circuit of 16-mm theatres, including mobile units. The 16-mm situation demands immediate attention, although television is on the wing and coming fast. If and when pressure from both these quarters is exerted simultaneously, as it will be, the pay of a projectionist will seem to be a comparatively small potato. Incidentally, has the M.P.T.O.A., or the Allied owners, or the producers ever spent an hour or a dollar to evaluate the position of the motion picture theatre in the television era?
Developments such as these is the reason why I. P. is a craft publication no less than a technical journal. There are some things vastly more important than corporate quarterly earnings and weekly salary payments, and among these is long-range security, no less for the theatreman's investment than for the projectionist's weekly wage.
So it is, I. P. readers, when you see in these pages items and articles that may not be classified as technical presentations— and we include in this category items relating to film company earnings, etc. — just remember that this bit of type helps to fill in the overall pattern and is a "function of I. P.'s service as a craft journal.
The 16-mm people are very much alive to the possibilities of a national narrow-gauge exhibition circuit, the establishment of which would occasion no great surprise in this corner. All the major producers are preparing to make 16-mm prints, although they disclaim any intention to distribute them in the U. S. A. This still leaves the exhibition field high and dry in terms of security.
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The producers' association has hired two Ph.D.'s as the nucleus of a factfinding and statistical research department. What are we waiting for — to be slugged by a ton of graph paper?
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