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MOTIONPICTURE
PROTECTIONIST
A FIRM FOUNDATION
DESPITE the hard times and the lack of profitable business neither of the two largest sound engineering companies have let up on their development work. RCA Victor has just announced its new High Fidelity Recording system which has a greater refinement than any of its recorders in use at present and a range greater even than is needed today. It is also ready with its reciprocal reproducing system which is announced in this issue.
Western Electric has kept pace with the times and its new recorders and reproducers achieve fine results in the studio and in the theatre.
The same is true of manufacturers of other types of projection equipment.
This is encouraging. It means that projection will not be permitted to slip back to pre-sound days when hardly any development work of any kind had been done for years. It means that the march will continue to better and simpler equipment safe in the hands of the finest engineering institutions in the country.
With the exception of WE and RCA we find no additions to the ranks of manufacturers of projection equip
ment. On the other hand very few old ones have dropped out. This record is a credit to the manufacturers: they builded well and carried on through fat and lean times serving the industry with the best machines they were able to turn out.
On looking backward it is also important to record how well these Tcys0 ufacturers rose to the demands /#£ talking pictures. b
It was natural that Western Elec^jc and RCA should set a fast pace from^ the beginning-a beginning to us, that isi but not to them because they had been working on sound pictures for a very long time before it was introduced to the public by Vitaphone. But our makers of lamps and lenses and screens, carbons and generators did not lack the vision or the experience to make changes and improvements to keep pace with the new projection.
Projectionists may depend on them and on increasingly better equipment. The craft is standing on a firm foundation.
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Published by the MANCALL PUBLISHING CORP., Boone Mancall, President. Editorial and Advertising Offices, 7 West 44th Street, New York City Entered at New York Post Office as second class matter, October 25, 1927.
Vol. 6 ▼ ▼ " No. I NOVEMBER, 1932
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