Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

2432 (Equipment Service) Motion Picture N e w s\ Subjected to accurate tests at every point in its manufacture EASTMAN FILM never has an opportunity to be anything but right. Identifiable by the words "Eastman" and "Kodak " in the film margin. EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. We call your attention to our long experience and excellent facilities for serving you when it comes to doing your DEVELOPING and PRINTING. We are sure EVANS can please you better — mucb better in quality of work. Remember it costs you notbing to investigate. Wby not do so now? EVANS FILM MFG. CO. 416-24 West 216th Street New York City Telephone: Audubon 6881-2 LIGHTS FOR STUDIO Klieglight Arc Lamps 2Section Klieglight s Lilliput For Travelling Spot Lights Figure 19 Catalogue H on request 242 West 50th Street, New York City developed in the dark-room adjoining. These drums are of exceptionally light construction, and are consequently very easy run1 ning, a very small motor sufficing to drive the loaded drum at the) requisite speed. Even the motors are protected from dust in this I immaculate drying-room, as they are covered with special hous-| ings whose only openings are those through which the driving I belt passes. Besides the various departments already mentioned, there is al series of cutting and assembling rooms on the second floor, foil the use of directors and other customers of the laboratory. The inspection room of the Craftsmen plant originally con-l tained two regular Simplex projectors, which were used in pro-| jecting all finished product, in order to locate and eliminate an> defects of manufacture. Due to the increased volume of worli handled by the concern at present, it has been necessary to aug-l ment the inspection facilities, and a new inspection room has beer.1 installed, equipped with four Simplex projectors, and the samtl number of operators. The projectors are equipped with Sheckl adaptors, using Mazda lamps, instead of the arc light previousl)l used, and by an ingenious connection the Mazda lamp and thcl motor of each machine are put into operation simultaneously b>| snapping a switch, while the pilot light, with which each machincl is provided, is extinguished automatically at the same instant. Irl this new inspection room the throw is short, and a small screerl image is viewed by the inspectors at close range. Proceeding upstairs to the third story, which originally accom-| modated the entire Craftsmen plant, we find that the removal olf some departments to the floor below has permitted the necessar>| extension of those still remaining. The room formerly occupie by the projecting machines is now the polishing department, wher«| the films are cleaned by Duplex polishing machines. The printir room has had its equipment more than doubled, for where ther were formerly four Duplex printers, nine of these machines a» now installed, and to facilitate rapid and uninterrupted printir special reels, carrying 1,200 feet of positive stock are attached tfl each printer mechanism. This permits each operator to print withf out stopping to renew the positive stock for three times as loi as the former method. The rolls of printed stock sent to tb developing room are, of course, only 200 feet long, as is usua the operator cutting these lengths from the large supply roll afte| they are printed. The assembling departments, which occupy a considerable por tion of the third floor, remain much the same in arrangement ami activity as on our earlier visit, but a Bell and Howell splicinj machine has been added to the equipment. This device gives I good account of itself in actual use, and the Craftsmen Laborl atories report that more splices can be made with it in a given timl than by the most experienced joining room hand, while the qualit| of these machine splices is already well known. Positives are all developed, washed and dried on the third flool of the laboratory, in rooms whose air is carefully regulated as tl temperature and freedom from dust, and to meet the requirement! of increased production the water filtering capacity has beef trebled, thus insuring plenty of suitable wash water at all timef The substantial growth of the Craftsmen Laboratories in the spacl of one year's time is proof that producers are learning to di?crinx[ nate in the matter of developing and printing. Cine Camera Objectives Mr. A. S. Walker, Trenton, N. J., inquires: "Are 2" t'ocil lenses fof motion picture photography now procurable, and if si where can I get one? These seem to be off the market at pre:| ent.'' In reply: As all of the optical companies who formerly macl photographic objectives are now engaged in the production of ill struments used in warfare by the several branches of the servicl such objectives are not being made systematically, in quantitiel for outside use at present. It is true that a few photograph! objectives are still made by the various optical manufacturers, b'J these are all made on special order, and are used in work of n | tional importance. Before ceasing the manufacture of photographic and cinem I tographic objectives in quantities some of the large firms made t a considerable reserve stock of their most important types, i| eluding motion picture camera objectives, of course. It is just possible that the Bausch & Lomb Optical Companl Rochester, N. Y., might be able to furnish a 2" cine Tessar, ail the C. P. Goerz American Optical Company, 317 East 34th strei | (Continued on page 2434) Be sure to mention " MOTION PICTURE NEWS " when writing to advertisers