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PROGRESS IN THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY*
The most important items of progress during the past six months have been the extensive use of all-color sound pictures, or pictures with extensive color inserts, and several demonstrations of enlarged projected pictures by the use of film wider than 35 mm.
Only two-color subtractive processes are at present in vogue and in one process extensively employed, two dye images are produced in a single layer film by imbibition. Although some three color imbibition films have been prepared, they have not been publicly displayed
To date only one type of wide film has been put on the market, this being 70 mm. wide. Comment of the trade has been most enthusiastic with regard to its suitability for scenics and news events, but it is apparent that a new photographic technic is required to secure more pleasing perspective in the case of photoplays. Difficulties involved in the more universal adoption of the wide film are the present lack of standardization of size, the necessity for greater illumination at the projector aperture, and the prevention of film buckle.
Studios in Hollywood are now producing only about 5 per cent of silent pictures. When it is considered that only one year ago the first dramatic sound pictures were shown before the Society, notably The Singing Fool, the remarkable progress made since that time is apparent. There has been a steady improvement in the quality of sound reproduction, notably in the theater, but in many cases the quality in the theater falls far short of that which the film is capable of producing when it leaves the studio. Much still remains to be done in the way of improvement even with the best of recording. With the high quality music given by the modern radio receivers the public is realizing that the average theater music is not equal in quality to that emanating from their radios at home.
Notable advances in studio technic have been (a) the tendency to use a minimum number of microphones and eliminate mixing, (b) the silencing of cameras by means of insulating coverings thus permitting greater freedom of camera location, (c) the tendency to use
* October, 1929— Report of the Progress Committee. 222