The Moving picture world (January 1926-February 1926)

etter Projection ^his Department Was founded in, 1910 bij its Sresent 6ditor^ ^.K3ilchardsori Better Projection Pays Here is Real Help WC. BUDGE hands me a report on sprocket holes, as follows. It •covers everything he handled ior seven days. "Sharp" means sharp corner sprocket holes. "Round" means round corner sprocket holes. What we are after is finding out the relative performance of round and sharp corner sprocket holes, proceeding on the assumption that the film which runs, most nearly without noise, is under relatively slight strain in the process of projection. Sunday, Sept. 13. Cartoon; Pathe; Stock No. 6; Sharp; a little noise. Comedy, Big U; Stock A. G. F. A.; Sharp; Fair amount of noise. Serial, Big U; Stock don't know what; Sharp; Fair amount of noise. Comedy, Apollo; Stock Eastman; Round; A little noise. Feature, Big U; Stock Eastman Nitrate Film; Round; Ran quiet. Monday, 'Sept. 14. Comedy, Eastman stock, old film; Sharp; A good bit of noise. Drama, Ay wan; Eastman stock; Sharp; Good bit of noise. Feature, Dora; Eastman stock; Round; Some noise, but rather quiet. Tuesday, Sept. 15. Comedy; Prime; Eastman stock; Round; Fairly quiet but some noise. Feature; Biltmore; Eastman stock; Round; Fairly quiet. Feature; Pathe; Pathe Cinema France stock; Round; Variable sound; Noise such as a locust makes. This only occurred when stock tinted a certain color went through. Don't know why, but that was the fact. Wednesday. Sept. 16. Comedy; Fox; Stock old A. G. F. A.; Sharp; Some noise but fairly quiet. Western; Big U; Stock A. G. F. A.; Sharp; Ran quietly. Feature; Vitagraph; Eastman stock; Round; Fairly quiet. Thursday, Sept. 17. Comedy; Merit; Eastman stock Round: Quiet; Serial, F. B. O., Eastman Stock; Fairly quiet. Feature; Champion; Stock; Bay State; Sharp; Fairly quiet. Friday, Sept. 18. Comedy, Big U; Stock, Eastman, A. G. P. A.; Geveart; Sharp; Ran fairly quiet. Serial, Big U; Stock unknown, but think it was Eastman; Sharp; Ran quietly. Feature, Universal Art; Stock Eastman; New print; Round; Ran quiet. Saturday, Sept. 19. News, Big U; Stock Eastman Nitrate; Round; Ran quiet. Comedy, Pathe; Stock Pathe Cinema Paris; Sharp; Makes a noise like a locust. (By this Brother Budge means a sharp, rather loud humming sound. Editor.) Serial, Pathe; Stock unknown; Sharp; Noisy as per preceding one. Comedy, Pathe; Stock unknown; Sharp. Noise same as previous two. Feature, F. B. O.; Eastman stock; Round; Ran fairly quiet. You will observe that out of thirteen sharp cornered sprocket hole films, only two ran quietlv. though three ran fairly so, and three were noisy. Out of ten round cornered sprocket hole films, four ran quietly, four fairly so and none were noisy. It really is too bad that a lot of you have not taken the trouble to comply with my request, and make such a complete report as this. The meeting of the Society of Motion Eicture Engineers will probably have been held before this gets into print. Had I a few dozen such reports to present to the Standards and Nomenclature Committee of that body, instead of just this one and the report of Brother Gray covering one film, but doing it very well indeed, it would have had large value, because we (I belong to the committee) are right not considering the matter of standardizing sprocket hole shape and size. Of course reports of relatively quiet running are not positive, conclusive proof that the quiet running hole shapes are best, but it at least gives us something tangible to work on. Brother Budge's work in compiling this report is appreciated. Back on the Job FH. MOORE, Projectionist City Thea, tre, Taunton, Massachusetts, says : Well, I am back at my old stand again. It seems good to be handling D. C. once more, after having bucked a D. C. arc all summer. Why not publish the names and addre»oes of all the boys some week, so that if some of us happen to feel like writing to each other we can do it. It would be a good stunt, what? We have fixed up the house to some extent this season. Redecorated it inside, and put in new fixtures on side walls: also a new lobby and marquee outside. The power company has gi\en me a 3-wire Edison service, so now we have plenty of power. Have enlarged the 3-wire. 220-volt service for my generator. Formerly had a No. 6 circuit outside for feeder. Have a 00 circuit now, and It makes a big difference. Next summer myself and wife will certainly drop in on you at your summer home. Intended to this year, but couldn't make it. Best regards and many happy returns of the day. Now what in heck do you mean. by that last. True I'll be fifty nine years old the 25th of this month (October) but how did you know that? I'm keeping the fact of my aged age a dense, dark, dank secrut. October next year I'll be sixty, if I stick around that long, and maybe, if you feel like it, I'll let you young squirts give me a party then. As to the addresses, I think that, except for those few who have not given me their stieet address— not many of them— and the two (Hanover and Doe) who purposely keep DUPLEX Reel Rewinder Costs very little compared with the years and years of service which they give. Price $9.50 F. O. B. Factory. DUPLEX MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRIES, INC. Dept. W iMng Island City, N. Y. their address (street and theatre) secret, as well as their real names, I have published the addresses of all department correspondents except (again except) once in a while one who, for good reasons, asks that his name and address be not published. It would be quite a job to hunt up all those addresses now, and I'm something more than literally swamped with work as it is. You'll all know next spring why that is true. Congratulations on the improved equipment. I am sure there is a loss due to toosmall feeders and circuits in a goodly number of theatres which would astound those paying the bills did they know of it. That is why I have repeatedly advised projectionists to measure the wires of the circuits, and calculate the voltage drop according to the Bluebook tables. Like yourself, though, Brother Moore, they neglect it, and when finally larger wires are put in they are a bit astonished at the results. I shall be very glad to have you and your beautiful wife (I've never seen her, but all women are beautiful) spend a week-end with me next summer, always provided Mrs. Moore will do the cooking. I'm all alone here, and I'll be gosh danged if any female woman is going to get the chance to give my cooking the he haw! All That Qray Said JR. BAILEY, Projectionist, Kitchener,. • Ontario, says : ".lust finished a three day showing of "Introduce Me," and can indorse all that Brother Gray said in his letter about the singing and rattling. His letter was most Interesting." So you see, Gray, when you wrote me you also wrote to a man way up in Kitchener, Ontario. You also addressed men over in New Zealand, in Australia, all over the United States of America, and, in fact, men located pretty well all over the civilized world. And they read our "dope," too. Make no mistake about that. At home you may discuss matters with a man or two, or maybe even with a dozen or two. At the A. P. S. meeting we even discussed matters with a hundred or more at one time. Through this department you can discuss matters of mutual interest with thousands of men each week scattered literally all over the surface of the globe. And that is no idle bunch of words either. Also we have a few readers in non-English speaking countries, and an occasional correspondent, too. Several most interesting letters have come from Norway. There have been many letters in the department from Australia and from New Zealand. There have been an occasional letter from other countries, including India, Ireland, Russia, England and even China.