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

Page scan 000132 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 #:
000132
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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THEATER TELEVISION 129 on a 15 X 20-foot screen using Schmidt-type reflective optics. Further development was interrupted by the war. Following the war, the RCA Laboratories reconditioned this same system, introduced an improved kinescope, revised circuits to operate on the new 525-line standard, and used the equipment in the summer of 1946 to show the Louis-Conn fight to an estimated audience of 3000 on the lawn of the Laboratories in Princeton. Fig. 1 — Equipment used in New Yorker Theater Demonstration, 1940, 15 X 20-foot picture. 1947 provided a 7l/2 X 10-foot television picture demonstration both at the TESMA Convention in Washington, D. C., and at the SMPE Convention in New York using equipment previously de-' scribed.1"4 In 1948, the demonstrations increased in picture size to 15 X 20 feet. Demonstrations were made by Warner Brothers in Hollywood8 for the SMPE-NAB meeting with equipment described in the same papers,1"4 and by Twentieth Century-Fox at the Fox Theater in Philadelphia on the occasion of the LouisWalcott fight.9 The equipment, stripped of its base, was mounted on the front of the