International projectionist (Jan-Dec 1946)

drZt Throw Away Your Headache Powders! // Unexpected repair and replacement bills give any manager a headache. With an RCA Sound Service and Parts Replacement Contract the cost of all parts and tubes for sound and projection equipment can be budgeted on a monthly basis. For the price of just a few admissions per day your sound equipment receives regularly scheduled check-ups and prompt emergency service. Check the famous "Seven Benefits" below. Your RCA Theatre Supply Dealer will gladly explain their advantages. Or write RCA Service Co., Inc., Dept. 43-L, Camden, N. J., for full details. Scheduled checkups Emergency service Regular maintenance Valuable technical data Insures peak performance Complete parts replacement Emergency sound systems RCA SERVICE COMPANY. IMC. RA BIO CORPORA TION of A ME RICA CA MDEN, H. J. ^rrollclciu KJreeti mad May we extend to you and yours our very best wishes for good health and happiness for the coming season. LOCAL 294. I. A. T. S. E. PHOENIX. ARIZ. •iS.au <zs#J<z. VIDEO AND THE MOVIES (Continued from page 6) studio live-talent material now in the making, but as telecast programs are lengthened to cover afternoons as well as evenings, we may be obliged to use an increasing amount of film entertainment. The time is coming when television should have suitable film productions of its own. Such films should be geared to television requirements — technically as well as in subject matter. Already some telecasters have covered news events with their own cameramen. Such presentations have been well received by the television audience. Much of this news reporting has been handled with 16-mm camera equipment, and it is important to point out that this smaller film televises about on a par with the 35-mm size. Thus the telecaster can work with the convenient and economical 16-mm equipment and film, which is especially significant for the smaller television station covering local news and sports. So far we have considered the contributions past, present, and future of movies' to the up-and-coming art of television. But this movie-television collaboration is definitely a two-way proposition. In time television will contribute much to movie technique, as well as to movie economics. Television Direct to Theatre? Among the earliest television contributions to the motion picture art is the Du Mont film-recording method of presenting televised events in theatres. Our engineers have long worked on the problems of projecting bright television images of adequate detail on full-sized theater screens. Today we have high-brilliancy tubes and large aperture lenses for approximating these results. Nevertheless, we have developed another method which offers more satisfactory results by way of recording the television images on film and then projecting the film in the conventional manner. The Du Mont equipment for this purpose— covered by the broad basic U. S. Patent No. 2,373,114— includes a highbrilliancy cathode-ray tube carrying the television image. The image is photographed on movie film, along with the sound track. The film is then automatically developed, fixed, rinsed, and dried, ready for conventional projection in a matter of minutes. The film can be cut and spliced, titled and edited, as necessary. The televised news event, taken off the air or coaxial cable, is on the screen aJmostras soon as it happens, so that it still qualifies as seeing-while-happening reporting. Yet the film makes possible the showing of the event as often as may be desired, which is a prime requisite of the theatre or movie house. The bulk of the revenue for big boxing bouts of the near future will no doubt 28 INTERNATIONAL PROJECTIONIST • December 1946