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Feb., 1935] 16-MM. SOUND-FILM OUTLOOK 177
the latter permitting a program of eight full reels to be projected, with a single interruption for rewinding. As many theatrical features are only six or seven reels in actual footage, it becomes practicable to precede the feature by one or two shorts and yet have the entire program on two large reels.
A decidedly interesting recent development for the amateur has been a portable and compact 16-mm. sound-film camera, with which the amateur can make his motion pictures with a sound-record of the operator's voice. Accessories for recording the voice and soundeffects made by the subjects photographed are available at additional expense, but are for the present rather heavy and bulky. With further research and competitive manufacture and production, however, it is reasonable to expect that the amateur sound-andpicture camera will soon become practicable and popular.
Until recently, the sale and distribution of sound projectors have, been hampered principally by the lack of an adequate supply of available sound-film entertainment subjects. Happily, this shortage is now being very rapidly remedied, and perhaps the most outstanding development in the new field has been the astonishing increase in the available supply of sound-film subjects during the past few months.
At the beginning of 1934, the available supply of 16-mm. soundfilm entertainment subjects was perhaps less than 50 reels. At the present time at least ten times that number are actually circulating in the various libraries of the country. Sound-film service is available from coast to coast, and it is no exaggeration to say that several thousands of reels of additional subjects are now available for reproduction in 16-mm. size and will be in circulation just as quickly as the distribution of equipment arouses even a moderate demand for such a supply.
Most of the 16-mm. sound-film projection equipment thus far sold has been for industrial purposes ; that is, for use by prominent manufacturers in showing their own commercial pictures, made to carry publicity or make sales for the products featured. Recently a decided interest in equipment has developed among institutions that desire to use sound-films but could not do so until the fire hazard and expense of 35-mm. prints and projectors had been replaced by the safety, simplicity, economy, and portability of their 16-mm. successors.
In the days of the silent picture, non-theatrical exhibitions lacked the charm and emotional appeal furnished by the orchestral accom