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Land of Everglades Contributes Foursome Photo of
Four movietone boys of Miami, Fla. Mr. E. A. Roperts, Mr. E. E. Frecu. And you can just feel the ocean breeze blowing through the foliage in the background. No wonder they are all smiling.
Movietone Projectionists
Left to right: Mr. George Raywoop, Mr. W. S. Roserts, Note the palm frond tickling Mr. Raywood on the head.
As to Picture Size
OVIETONE projectionists are M invited to consider the importance of gauging the size of the picture to suit the auditorium conditions. In this item many things may be considered. I shall set them forth in order, or part of them at least, in this article. Later I shall perhaps deal with the matter more in detail.
First, it may be taken as a basic fact that a motion picture should be no larger than is necessary to cause the picture details to be clearly seen from the rear seats in the auditorium.
Size over and above these requirements automatically operates to reduce screen brilliancy per candle power issuing from the projection lens. It operates to make all photographic blemishes and
faults more pronounced. It increases the size and visibility of all “rain” marks and similar blemishes. It sets up additional eye strain for those “down front.” It causes any movement of the screen image as a whole, up, down or sidewise, to be more visible. It sets up a very largely increased light demand, hence current consumption demand if screen brilliancy is to be maintained equal with that of a smaller picture.
Such increase in size beyond the requirements above set forth accomplishes no gain in naturalness or in anything else. As a matter of fact men, women or other things will appear quite life size regardless of picture size, because the audience looks at the picture as a whole and judges the relative “size”
of any object by surrounding objects.
From any and every viewpoint it is advantageous to have the picture no larger than will enable those in the rear seats to see all details clearly and without undue eye strain, with the proviso that extremes are seldom desirable in anything, and a ten-foot-wide picture is perhaps as small as should be used in a theatre.
THAT SIXTH SENSE
The other day we saw a projectionist hopping around the booth like a cat on a hot griddle. He had sensed something was a little wrong with the sound projection. That fellow has movietone consciousness.