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invention consists of printing two sound tracks on 35 mm. film running in opposite directions. The film so printed is processed in the usual way and then slit in half, each half accompanying a reel of picture. It is wound on a special combination reel, of which one side carries the picture and the other side the sound track.
MR. Ross: We strongly believe in maintaining standards whenever possible. We further believe it would be a mistake to adopt a standard of 50 or 65 mm. film or any size other than 35 and 70 mm. The small house does not have a large enough stage to accommodate wide screen pictures, whereas the de luxe houses have such stages. The de luxe house with its comparatively larger box-office receipts can easily afford to install 70 mm. apparatus, whereas the cost of such a change would be prohibitive to the small house. We recommend the use of 70 mm. film and apparatus for the de luxe houses and 35 mm. film and apparatus for the smaller houses. Furthermore, we believe that sound will eventually be recorded on a separate film. The sound for Hell's Angels is produced on separate film having two sound tracks. We will have more to say of this during the discussion of the question of sound on separate film. It is our belief that all pictures should be recorded on 70 mm. film; however, we see no reason why pictures dealing exclusively with intermediate and closeup shots should not be recorded on 35 mm. film and optically condensed laterally for printing wide film 1 to 1.8 release prints. Mr. Fear has modestly refrained from mentioning his system wherein the pictures are recorded longitudinally on 35 mm. film, whereby 70 mm. pictures may be printed directly therefrom. This requires the building of new cameras but so does the use of 70 mm. film. Another method of recording wide film consists of recording on 35 mm. film in the regular cameras, optically condensing the picture laterally during recording, and then optically printing normal pictures on 70 mm. film for the de luxe houses as well as optically printing normal pictures on 35 mm. film for the small houses. This can be accomplished by using bi-convex lenses, now standard products, which do not seem any different from ordinary printing lenses. In the final analysis we believe that all pictures will be recorded on 70 mm. film in the 1 to 1.8 ratio suggested, directly printed for the de luxe releases while for the smaller houses the 70 mm. pictures will be optically printed on 35 mm. film in the 3 to 4 regular ratio. This will make the objects appear slightly more slender than normal, an attribute for which all actors longingly crave. Obviously the