Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

April 11, 1931 Motion Picture Herald 91 may be installed in an area of around 4,000 square feet. Each layout includes all the equipment necessary for setting up the course for public operation. In some instances, where gravel or cinders could be used for parts of the sections leading to the greens, the material might be procurable locally. The greens are made of felt, cotton seed hulls, rubber or sand (the latter being probably obtainable locally). Prices range from around $2,000 to $10,000, with some layouts costing as high as $25,000. Burlington Blanket Company, Burlington, Wis. Miniature Golf Courses of America, Inc., 41 E. 42nd Street, New York City. Tom Thumb Division, National Pipe Products, Rochester, Pa. National Rug Mills, Inc., 2494 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Frank Netschert. Inc., 61 Barclay Street, New York City. Western Felt Works, 4029-31 Ogden Avenue, Chicago. 111. Whitney Goit & Company, 1922 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. A Generators, Motor THIS ELECTRICAL device is designed to produce direct current for the arc lamp on the projection machine, spotlights or double dissolving stereopticon. It consists of an alternating current motor, directly connected on a shaft to a direct current generator. Motor generators are made for every current requirement to deliver amperages from 20 amperes to 800 amperes. There are 20 and 30 ampere outfits for reflecting arc lamps ; 40, 60 and 80 ampere outfits for the ordinary arcs, and 80, 100, 150 ampere and larger generators for use with high intensity lamps. Motor generators are made in two types, the series generators and the multiple arc generators. The series arc is for use with two picture machine arcs. It is so designed that for the period of time needed to warm up the second picture machine arc, preparat tory to changing from one picture machine j to the other, it will carry both arc lamps I at the same amperage without danger of losing the light on the arc lamp on the running picture machine. Multiple arc generators are designed and [ built to generate direct current for many i arcs. They are used in the motion picture booths where there are two arcs on the picture machines, one or more spotlights and a double dissolving stereopticon and effect machine. The multiple arc generator correctly built, will carry the entire battery of arc lamps and various amperages. The variance in amperages is controlled by the necessary rheostats. Prices range from $350 up. AUTOMATIC DEVICES COMPAMY, Allentown, Pa. CENTURY ELECTRIC COMPANY. 1806 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. Continental E ectric Company, 323 Ferry Street, Newark, N. J. Electric Specialty Company, 211 South Street, Stamford, Conn. j General Electric Company, 1 River Road, Schenectady. N. Y. HERTNER ELECTRIC COMPANY, 12698 Elmwood Avenue, Cleveland, O. Hobart Brothers Company, Troy, O. Ideal Electric & Manufacturing Company, Mansfield, , O. j Imperial Electrical Company, Inc., Ira Avenue I Akron, O. Northwestern Electric Company, 409 S. Hoyne Street. \ Chicago, 111. Robbins & Meyers Company, Springfield, O. ROTH BROTHERS, 1400 W. Adams Street, Chicago, lU. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa. A Grilles GRILLES IN BOTH brasS and bronze are used in box office windows, organ grille openings, ceilings under balconies (usually illuminated), and in radiator openings in lobbies. Manufacturers of this item show many designs to select from. Can be bought in standard sectional assembly or built to order. Newman Manufacturing Company, Norwood Station, Cincinnati, O. The Stewart Iron Works Company, Inc., 504 Stewart Block, Cincinnati, O. The Voigt Company, 1745 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Zero Valve & Brass Corporation, 634 Fourth Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A Gummed Labels SPECIALLY PREPARED gummed labels to expedite the preparation of parcel post and express packages are now on the market. These time savers are sold at a very nominal cost. Their use minimizes the possibility of torn or missing labels and the resultant lost package. Tablet & Ticket Company, 1021 W. Adams Street, Chicago, 111. A Hand Blowers HAND BLOWERS are small electric instruments used to blow dust or dirt out of places too small to wipe clean, places that might endanger one's hands or equipment too delicate to handle. They are especially handy in cleaning amplifiers, dimmers, motors, organs, chandeliers, etc. Clements Jlfg. Company, 690 Fulton Street, Chicago, 111. A Hand Driers WHAT IS KNOWN as the sanitary hand drier for the lavatories of theatres is an electrically operated blower type of drier, through which a current of warm air evaporates the water on the hands. Driers of this type are built of cast iron with a heavy white porcelain finish with the metal parts of nickel plate. These driers stand about 46 inches high with full 360-degree swivvel nozzle and are operated by a foot lever or automatic cut-off push button which turns the switch on and off. Airdry Corporation, Groton, N. Y. Milwaukee Engineering & Manufacturing Company, 261 S. Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Sani Products Company, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 111. A Hardware, Stage WITH THE GROWING popularity in theatres of presentation acts a need is apparent for equipment to meet the varied physical requirements in the way of stage hardware to accomplish this purpose. The subject of stage hardware takes in many items, large and small, which are equipment essentials in the stage that is to be prepared to house a variety of acts or talent. Under the heading of stage hardware are included such items as blocks and pulleys of all types, counterweights and arbors, belay pins, cleats, curtain tracks, keystones and corners, pin rails, pin wire, rope, manila and wire, rope locks, sand bags, smoke pocket stage screws, trim clamps, winches, carriers for extra-large screens and horns. Steel curtains and counterweight rigging are also important items of the equipment in the modern stage. Acme Stage Equipment Company, 191 Lafayette Street, New York City. ARMSTRONG STUDIOS, INC., 1717 Cordova Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Bruckner-Mitchell, Inc., 532-540 W. 22nd Street, New York City. J. H. CHANNON CORPORATION, 223 W. Erio Street, Chicago, 111. J. R. Clancy, 1010 W. Belden Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. Great Western Stage Equipment Company, 817 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo. Klemm Manufacturing Corporation, 1449-55 W. Austin Avenue, Cliicago, III. Lee Laish Studios, 1818 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City. MADE IN ALLENTOWN SAMUELS bTABILARC MOTOR-GENERATOR AUTOMATIC DEVICES COMPANY 739 HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. USED EVERYWHERE