Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

88 Better Theatres Section April 11, 1931 by holding the film cabinet at an angle so that a reel of film cannot be laid on top of it. The prices range from $12.00 to $17.00. Belson Manufacturing Company, 800 Sibley Street, Chicago, 111. E. E. 'FTJLTON COMPANY, 1018 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IlL ▲ Film Cement A SPECL'VL preparation for splicing motion picture film used in theatres, laboratories and film exchanges. Film Cement sells at about 20 cents a bottle. Bell & Howell Company, 1801 Larclimont Avenue, Chicago, 111. Erker Brothers Optical Company, 608 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. E. B. Griffen, Oshkosh, Wis. Hewes-Gotham Company, 520 W. 47th Street, New York City. Monarch Theatre Supply Company, 154 E. Calhoun Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Neumade Products Corporation, 442 W. 42nd Street, New York City. Rosco Laboratories, 367 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Theatre Sound Equipment Company, Hope, Ark. ▲ Film Cleaning Machines A BLOCK containing pads which are saturated with a film cleaning liquid through which the film is run, dirt and grit being removed from it in the process. Prices range from $7.50 up. Consolidated Film Industries, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Duplex Motion Picture Industries, 74 Sherman Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. Dworsky Film Machine Corporation, New York City. Foster & Bartlett, 45 W. 45th Street, New York City. Neumade Products Corporation, 249 W. 47th Street, New York City. REX FILM RENOVATOR MFG. COMPANY, 73 E. Naghten Street, Columbus, O. ▲ Film Developing and Printing WITH MOTION PICTURE presentations and local news reels offering novelty on many theatre bills, a great responsibility rests upon those developing and printing the films. Rapid service is required, yet the negatives and positives must be handled with meticulous care to avoid cloudiness, rain and other faults. Positives may be obtained in black and white and in several tints, including amber, red, etc. BELL AND HOWELL COMPANY, 1801 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, ill. Craft Film Laboratories, Inc., 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Empire Laboratories, Inc., 733 Seventh Avenue, New York City. ▲ Film Inspection Machines PERFECT PROJECTION is impossible unless the film itself is in perfect mechanical condition. Today the public demands good screen and sound results and the projectionist can accomplish this only when proper inspection has been given to the film. The film inspection machines manufactured today are adding efficiency to this work. Film Inspection Machine Company, 630 Ninth Avenue, New York City. ▲ Film, Raw RAW FILM is motion picture film that has never been exposed. Camera spools carry 400 and 1,000 feet of negative film, and positive film can be got in 1,000-foot lengths. The positive film is that which is used to make a copy or print from the original film or negative. Ansco-Agfa Film Corporation, Binghamton, N. Y. Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Corporation, 35 W. 45th Street, New York City. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y. A Film Reels Refer to REELS A Film Rewinders THIS DEVICE is used for rewinding films after they are run through the projectors, and are made in two general patterns, the bench and fire-proof enclosed type. The bench or open rewind is made in one piece types with the dummy and geared end complete in one unit, and others are made so that they can be clamped to a bench or shelf, while some are permanently fastened by means of bolts. Some are made with plain bearings and some have their spindles mounted on ball bearings. Thev range in price from $5.00 to $15.00. The enclosed rewinds are made in various patterns, both hand drive and motor drive models. The motor drive type is generally automatic in its operation, stopping at the end of the film or should the film break. Some are made with plain bearings and some have their spindles mounted on ball bearings. Some motor drive types also have multiple speed ranges and accommodate either one or two-thousand-foot reels. One type recently brought on the market also has a detachable grinding and polishing attachment for aiding the operator in keeping his equipment in first class shape as well as keeping his arc lamp in good working order. The prices range from $50.00 to $160.00 complete. Atlas Metal Works, 2601 Alamo Street, Dallas, Tex. Automatic Film Rewinder, Harrisburg, Pa. Bass Camera Company, 179 W. Madison Street, Chicago, 111. BELL & HOWELL COMPANY, 1827 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, IlL CHICAGO CINEMA EQUIPMENT COMPANY, 1736 N. Springfield Avenue, Chicago, III. Duplex Motion Picture Industries, 74 Sherman Avenue. Long Island City, N. Y. Dworsky Film Machine Corporation, Film Center Building, New York City. Erker Brothers Optical Company, 608 Olive Street, St. Louis, _ Mo. Film Inspection Machine Company, Inc., 3'3 W. 60th Street. New York City. Foster & Bartlett, 45 W. 4Sth Street. New York Citv. E. E. FULTON COMPANY, 1018 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. GOLDE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 2013 LeMoyne Street, Chicago, III. Neumade Products Corporation, 249 W. 47th Street, New York City. W._ G. Preddey, 187 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Calif. A Film Splicing Machines EQUIPMENT of this type is used mostly in film exchanges, studios and laboratories for the purpose which the name states. Smaller models are made for theatres. Prices range from $6.00 up. BELL & HOWELL COMPANY, 1801 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, IlL Duplex Motion Picture Industries, 74 Sherman Avenue, Long_ Island City, N. Y. Dworsky Film Machine Corporation, Film Center Building, New York City. E. E. FULTON COMPANY, 1018 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, ni. Neumade Products Corporation, 249 W. 47th Street, New York City. A Film Processing Machines A DEVICE for protecting the projector from emulsion of green film. It is placed between rewinds, the film passing through the waxing machine and waxing the sprocket holes while being rewound. Prices range from $15.00 up. Consolidated Film Industries, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Duplex Motion Picture Industries, 74 Sherman Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. Dworsky Film Machine Corporation, Film Center Building, New York City. Erker Brothers Optical Company, 608 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Neumade Products Corporation, 249 W. 47th Street, New York City. REX FILM RENOVATOR MFG. COMPANY, 73 E. Naghten Street, Columbus, O. A Fire Doors Refer to FIREPROOF DOORS A Fire Extinguishers THERE ARE for theatres four types of fire extinguishers: the one quart size hand extinguisher, containing carbon tetra-chloride ; the 2j4-gallon soda and acid extinguisher; the 2j/2-gallon foam type, and the portable carbon Dioxide hand type. Good ones of these types are manufactured by many companies. Instructions from fire inspectors should be carefully followed in distributing these through the theatre building. Prices range around $12.00. American-LaFrance and Foamite Corporation, Elmira, N. Y. Fyr-Fyter Company, 221 Crane, Dayton, O. Harker Manufacturing Company, 121 W. Third Street, Cincinnati, O. International Fire Equipment Corporation, W. New Brighton, N. Y. Pyrene Manufacturing Company, 560 Belmont Avenue, Newark, N. J. A Fire Prevention for Projectors IMPORTANT equipment has been developed which it is said definitely prevents a film fire in the projection machine. This equipment is a safety control device, that is easily installed and which is operated on the regular line voltage. The main control unit and dowser are mounted on the cone of the lamphouse and act as the main light cut off, taking the place of the regular dowser. The dowser is operated from five distinct points of contact, covering every avenue through which a fire could start in the projector while it is in operation or at a standstill with the film in it. All contact points are very sensitive, and the dowser is instantaneous in its action, yet does not depend upon springs to actuate it. An arm with a loop and idler are so mounted as to engage with the upper film loop, another arm and idler is so mounted to engage the lower loop, an auxiliary idler is mounted so that it rides the film between the take-up sprocket and lower magazine valve rollers. These three points of contact with the film offer protection against fire from the following causes : film break at any point in the projector ; loss of lower loop ; loss of upper loop ; mutilated perforations, i. e. : perforations in such condition that film will not ride properly through projector ; failure of film to pass properly through projector from any cause; failure of film to take-up properly; bad reel in lower magazine; take-up belt breaking. Now there are other avenues by which a film fire can start, and the inventors of the device have apparently overlooked nothing in the way of safety.