International projectionist (Jan-Dec 1946)

come from theatre television. Likewise, with ni In T '•porting events. /•'()/ the boxoffice is still the logical place to collect for such features, and I his televisionfilmed technique provides the practical means of multiplying the paying audience to untold proportions. This service is not to be confused with usual news reels, since it presents the event in the matter of minutes as against hours for the usual movie version. And a televised event — ■ seen a> it happens — must always have fresher and greater box-office appeal. Meanwhile, the televised event will also be available to news reels for usual distribution. The possibilities of television-filming are simply unpredictable. Even at this early date the television studio and its control room may well be the envy of the movie producers. In television we have a plurality of cameras on the studio floor, each transferring its pickup instantly to a respective monitor screen in the control room. The production director has before him the respective pickups of all cameras. By means of the intercommunicating iysem. with earphones worn by the cameramen, he can instruct any cameraman as to desired shots. Any single pickup can be selected and transferred to the transmitter for placement on the screens of the telesets of the • audience. More than that, any combination of scenes can be used by corresponding switching. Also, there are electronic faders, lap dissolves, and other effects largely duplicating movie camera technique. The control-room operators can obtain simple or intricate montage effects by electronic manipulations of the pickups of two or more cameras, .while each component of such a montage is under complete and immediate control. The Electronic View-Finder As an interim step in television-filming, the remote electronic view finder idea may interest movie producers. The usual film cameras are still used in the conventional manner, but attached to such cameras is a miniature television camera which transmits the view finder image to a screen before the director. Thus the director has before him the exact scene for which any camera is set at that given moment. The director can phone the cameraman and give instructions, while viewing the new setup of the camera as such instructions are followed. When the scene is properly set in the electronic view finder, the order to "roll" the camera follows. What such co-ordination could mean to the director of gigantic spectacles, covered by many cameras in scattered locations, is feft to your imagination. As time goes on the pictorial quality of televised images will steadily improve until it is on a par with motion picture PROJECTORS WORTHY OF A PROUD NAME A PROUD NAME in the motion picture world, DeVRY is justly proud of its 35mm. motion picture projectors — again available after discharging their war time job with flying colors. Into these streamlined, rugged, durable and trouble-free essentials to audience satisfaction has gone a wealth of engineering knowledge and experience. Back of their sterling performance are new manufacturing techniques, improved machinery, broadened facilities — and the skilled craftsmanship of men who have, built projection and sound equipment for some of the world's finer theaters — equipment that exceeds generally accepted commercial standards in every respect. Coupon brings you facts of importance. 5 TIME WINNER DeVRY alone has been awarded five consecutive Army Navy "E's" for Excellence in the production of Motion Picture Sound Equipment. DeVRY CORPORATION, Dept. IP-C12 1111 Armitage Ave., Chicago 14, Illinois Please send details about the NEW DeVRY 35-mm. Theater Projectors and Sound Systems. Name Address City State Theatre Capacity s. eadon A 5 KjreetinaS I I Projectionists Local No. 173 I ' I. A. T. S. E. t | TORONTO, ONT. CANADA % i %: INTERNATIONAL PROJECTIONIST December 1946 29