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to which the lists of films adapted for family use, will be based. Amongst the groups present at the Meeting, were the Boy Scouts of America, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the International Federation of Catholic pupils, the daughters of the American revolution, the Union of English speaking peoples, etc.
FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF SOUND MOTION PICTURES
IN LIFELIKE PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD'S LARGEST
PICTURE SCREEN ANNOUNCED BY RCA PHOTOPHONE
A new system of motion pictures, synchronized with sound by RCA Photophone, and projected on the world's largest motion picture screen in lifelike perspective, was demonstrated for the first time to a private audience of leading engineers, motion picture executives and newspaper men at the Gramercy Studios of RCA Photophone, Inc.
The new system, described as natural vision photography and projection, is the work of George K. Spoor and John J. Berggren of Chicago and represents over ten years research and laboratory development, in the effort to overcome the present-day limitations of the silver screen The new system projects pictures of characters and scenes with lifelike size, detail and perspective on a vast panoramic screen, hitherto unattainable m the motion picture art.
Synchronized with sound by RCA Photophone, the new development,. it was forecast by engineers and motion picture experts, opens a new field of opportunity in motion picture production.
To show the startling contrast in size and perspective between the standard motion picture of today and the natural vision picture of tomorrow, a standard 35 mm. film was first thrown on the screen, in the size as normally viewed in motion picture theatres. It seemed like a postage stamp on the vast area of the new screen employed for the projection of the Spoor-Berggren film.
Immediately following this, the identical scene recorded and reproduced by RCA Photophone on the Spoor-Berggren film, was flashed upon the great screen, 30 feet high and 52 feet long, sweeping across the immense studio proscenium from post to post, although pictures under the same system can be projected to a lenght of 70 feet. The line of a musical comedy chorus, dancing and singing in rhythm across a stage that extended the
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