Motion picture projection : an elementary text book (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture projection : an elementary text book
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York : Technical Book Company
Volume:
Motion picture projection : an elementary text book
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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MOTION PICTURE PROJECTION 11 Introduction /N the Spring of the present year, the writer ventured to make a prophecy before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers about the motion picture theatre of the future. That prophecy spoke of a marked advance in projection during the next five years and improvement and progress in the machinery and equipment required for highly perfected projection of pictures. It is because of the modern and improved equipment of to-day and the great things that will be developed along these lines in the future that the word motion picture "operator" is no longer applicable to the kind of work that is necessary and that we are now getting in motion picture projection. The word is "projectionist." The men who follow this calling in addition to being highly specialized and highly trained mechanics of the most expert kind, must in addition, be artists in their own particular line. The equipment in use to-day — the automatic machinery, the high intensity arc, the advance in optics, the advance in light diffusion and screen surfaces — have placed on the projectionists the responsibility of executing what is one of the most important — if not the most important — function of the American motion picture theatre. Our large picture houses — where through various