Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Apr-Jun 1931
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)
Leaf #:
000367
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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April 18. 1931 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 13 REGULAR BROADCASTING METHODS REQUIRE BAND OF 4 MILLION CYCLES T ransmitted By Usual Methods Fig. 4 — By using ten ordinary broadcast channels, and transmitting 6250 elements, the appearance would be as above. Fig. 5 — By employing twenty ordinary broadcast channels greater detail is gained as indicated in the group above. Monopoly of Transmitting Channels Necessary Some Minor Inroads in Home Field Expected to Materialize in the Next Two or Three Years {Continued from preceding page) Gannett, an important factor in television development for American Telephone & Telegraph, outlines the surface workings of television transmission and their relations to the quality of images. By D. K. GANNETT American Telephone & Telegraph Co. In the procesbcs usually employed in telephotography, the picture may be considered to be divided into a large number of small, etjual-sized elements like a mosaic. Unlike the human eye, which sees the whole picture at once, the electrical eye of the transmitting machine is focused on only one element at a time, passing rapidly along row after row lit elements until the whole picture has been scanned. As each element is viewed in turn, an electrical signal is sent out whose strength corresponds to the average shade of that element. Upon reception of the signals, the receiving apparatus re-creates the picture elements one at a time, painting each dark or light as directed by the electric signals, and arranges them in the proper order to form a picture similar to that viewed by the transmitter. It is apparent that, in such a system, picture details smaller or closer to.Eether than (Continued on page 33) Fig. I-B — Picture transmitted over the commercial telephotograph system containing 250,000 elements.