Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

Page scan 000131 from Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers

Record Details:

Title:
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1930-1949
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : The Society
Volume:
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Leaf #:
000131
Language:
English
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE)Êdocuments the technological progress of the film industry, highlighting technical developments in production and exhibition. Of special interest are articles about special effects, theater practices, lighting, and the introduction of the 16mm format. Initially titled "Transactions of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers."Digitized by the Prelinger Library and the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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124 COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES [J. S. M. P. E. colors, a rotatable disk having a plurality of color filters and opposed shutter segments dividing the filters into two groups, one group being composed of red and orange filters and the other group of yellow, green, blue, and violet filters, the tangential lengths of the red and orange filters being greater than the length of the other filters in proportion to the optical effectiveness of the colors whereby the latter produce equal impressions upon the eye." 1,758,137. Apparatus for Printing Reticulated Films. RODOLPHE BERTHON, May 13, 1930. (Class 88-24.) 1.758.184. Manufacture of Multicolor Cinematograph Films. JOHN EDWARD THORNTON, May 13, 1930. (Class 95-2.) Claim 2: "The method of producing a multi-width, multi-layer cinematograph colloid film positive comprising coating a temporary re-inforcing backing with colored colloid arranged in a plurality of parallel strips, sensitizing the colloid, printing component images one at a time in a straight line across the multi-width film, severing the film into a plurality of strips of single-width, removing the paper re-inforcement, cementing the printed colored strips together in accurate register and adding a layer of waterproof varnish." 1.758.185. Cinematograph Color Film and Method of Manufacture. JOHN EDWARD THORNTON, May 13, 1930. (Class 95-2.) Claim 1: "The method of manufacturing a strip of film material which consists in coating a strip of celluloid with a thin layer of insoluble bichromated gelatin, applying thereto two strips of sensitized colloid, drying and shrinking the same, coating a strip of porous paper with a thin layer of soluble gelatin, drying and shrinking the same, damping the face of the two strips and laying one strip on the other to amalgamate them into a single strip of film material." 1,758,572. Process of Producing Pictures Consisting of Dyes in Photographic Manner. FRIEDRICH LIERG, May 13, 1930. (Class 95-6.) 1.758.768. Multicolor Cinematograph and Other Film. JOHN EDWARD THORNTON, May 13, 1930. (Class 95-2). Claim 1: "A double-width, multicolor, screen-mosaic picture positive comprising a double width film of transparent material, a color-mosaic screen in two colors covering each half width of the doublewidth film, an adhesive substratum between each color-screen and each half width of the film, and a half picture of negative character upon each half width of the film superimposed on its own color-screen." 1.758.769. Multicolor Cinematograph and Other Film. JOHN EDWARD THORNTON, May 13, 1930. (Class 95-2.) 1,758,977. Reflecting Prism. THOMAS W. ROLPH, May 20, 1930. (Class 88-1.) A prism so constructed as to reflect a light ray at least three times in the same plane. 1,759,914. Method of Producing Film for Color Cinematography. ALEXANDER PILNY, May 27, 1930. (Class 88-16.4.) Claim 1: "A method of producing film strips for cinematography which comprises splitting a series of images rectangularly and projecting them onto longitudinal parallel portions of a film strip by folding the strip longitudinally at right angles to present said portions for receiving the partial images." 1,761,361. Control-Mechanism for Color Projecting Machines. ANTON J. OBERG AND ROBERT R. STOEFEN, June 3, 1930. (Class 88-24.) Relating strictly to the construction of the projecting machine.