The motion picture projectionist (Oct 1928-Oct 1929)

38 The Motion Picture Projectionist April, 1929 /Fhere to Buy Good Equipment Notice to Projectionists The Motion Picture Projectionist recommends all Dealers represented in this section. We urge you to support them at all times.. Patronize them for new or used equipment of every description. If they haven't got what you want they'll get it for you. VANCOUVER, CANADA UOR live dependable service and attractive prices write. THE UNITED ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Complete Theatre Equipment Specialists 847 Davie St., Vancouver, B. C, Canada TAMPA, FLA. AMUSEMENT Supply Company, Tampa, Fla., W. C. Burgert, Manager. Established in 1904. The oldest dealers of theatre equipment in the South. Fully qualified and experienced, and backed up by the best in equipment to render you the best service. Strictly Independent. WINNIPEG, CANADA JM. RICE & CO., J. M. Rice, Prop. Lead• ing equipment dealers in all kinds of projection room equipment facilities. Representatives of leading equipment manufacturers of the United States and Canada. All our merchandise guaranteed for performance and stability. Whatever you want, we will supply it. WICHITA, KANSAS OOUTHWEST Theatre Equipment Co., 321 ^ North Main St., Wichita, Kansas. Jobbers and Distributors of Equipment. Get our prices on what you need. Address your inquiry, attention C. D. Feck, Manager, member I. A. T. S. E. No. 414. MEMPHIS, TENN. Tj1 OLLOW THE CROWDS. They Know Best. X For Superior Craftsmanship — Dependable Service and Moderate Prices, send your Repair Work to our Peerless Shop. Every Job Guaranteed. Relief Equipment Loaned FREE. Established Over 20 years. Monarch Theatre Supply Co., 395 South Second street, Memphis, Tenn. Complete "Sound' List T>ELO\V there appears an up-to-date *-* list of synchronous reproducing devices for installation in motion picture theatres. Several of these devices have yet to make their first theatre installation, while others have but three or four units working. Many manufacturers who now have a disc system working are promising a sound-on-film attachment shortly, but it is an open secret that the majority of these will be unable to make good their promises because of their inability to overcome the many difficulties contingent upon the working out of a satisfactory optical system. The list follows : Dctnce TVPe Bello-O-Tone Disc Biophone Disc Cinephone Film DeForest Phonofilm Film DeLuxe Masterphone Disc Drarmaphone Disc Dulcetone Disc Electrical Research Prod Dual Filmtone Disc Gennett Hanaphone Disc Halgrophone Disc Htimaphone Disc Ince-A-Phone Disc Kolstadphone Disc Melotone Disc Moviephone Sound Movie-Phone Disc Pacent Disc Paratone 'Disc Phonoscope Disc Phototone (Allied) Disc Phototone (Platter) Disc R. C. A. Photophone Film Reeltone Disc Simotone Disc Slote Synchronizer Disc Sonograph Film Sonora-Bristolphone Disc Synchrophone Corp Disc Talk-A-Phone Disc Telefilm No Traveltone Disc Vocafilm Disc Note (a) Geared to play 33^3 rpm records, fb) Plays standard speed records. (b) (b) (c) (b) (b) (b) a) a) c) c) a) a) a) a) a) a) a) a) a) a) a) (b) -on-wire a) (b) a) d) a) a) a) c) a) d) a) d) a) a) a) (b) (b) (b) (b) data a) (b) (d) (b) a) (b) Attachment None announced Film ; now available Disc ; ready very soon Disc (a) (b) ; about April 1 Film ; ready soon Film; about April 1 None announced Film ; ready soon None announced None announced None announced None announced Film ; ready later Film; ready June Film ; now testing Film ; ready soon None announced None planned Film (c) ; ready May 1 Film (c) ; ready soon Disc (a) ; ready Film ; now testing None announced None announced None announced Film (c) ; about March 1 None announced None announced No data Film attachment date uncertain Not decided (c) Uses 80 mills sound track. (d) Details not available. Sound Shorts Supplant Publix Presentations PUBLIX THEATRES, INC., operators of a string of theatres throughout the country, is now supplanting its presentation programs with all-film programs. The elaborate stage shows which heretofore have been routed through the Publix circuit as regular units will not be produced in future, but will be succeeded by short subject films having sound accompaniment. This radical change in Publix policy is the result of a series of experimental allfilm programs which were offered at several of the company's West Coast houses. The response to this type of program was so hearty that the Publix executives decided to install it in all their houses. No more Publix presentation units will be formed for the road, and the houses affected by the switch will offer all-film programs. This change in policy is all the more startling when it is considered that Sam Katz, president of the company, was the first to employ the presentation feature in de luxe theatres and has long been a strong advocate of the idea as against the feature and short subject program. The coming of sound pictures, however, quickly convinced Katz that the short subject with sound would provide just as good, if not better, entertainment than the presentation offering. It is estimated that not a few stagehands will be affected by this change in Publix policy, as the presentation route included about 36 theatres which employed many stagehands. The first theatres outside of the West Coast district to be affected by the change are Southern houses — the Howard in Atlanta and the Alabama in Birmingham. In the Tivoli, Chattanooga, and the Tennessee, Knoxville, the short subject sound reels will supplant regular Keith vaudeville.