Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

74 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 6, 1(U8 19 a ■>< Motion Picture Photography' Conducted by CARL LOUIS GREGORY, F. R. P. S. I __ la g g ^ g> <g. g;« g 15 jS g'g'g-g'^^-^ -^ -5> -^ •:>'•£ -^ ^ -s> -^ -*$■> -5? -^ -^^Igd Inquiries. QUESTIONS in cinematography addressed to this department will receive carbon copy of the department's reply by mall when four cents In stamps are inclosed. Special replies by mall on matters which cannot be replied to In this department, $1. Manufacturers' Notice. It is an established rule of this department that no apparatus or other goods will be indorsed or recommended editorially until the excellence of such articles has been demonstrated to Its editor. Another Interesting Letter from France. Here is one of the most Interesting letters that has reached this irtment from one ol the boys who is turning the camera crank for Uncle Sam over there. The letter is from Bergeant Harry Thorpe to Lieut. Victor Fleming, both of whom were formerly the men behind the camera with Douglas Fairbanks, but lately of the Photographic Division ol the signal Corps. Dear Pal: I baven'l written you for some little lime, but the hard iuntry, 1 Snd, is to write let! even when one lias ill- time you never have the Inclination. 1 have sat around by the hour and have tried to bring myl to write, but when you r from home you just think what's tie It is raining ugain today, I laid AGAIN, where I have bt for the last two weeks it rams most all the time, though it d k at times during the da] for a few hours, and then I out rork. It is beautiful section . and as the i ",i and I get fairly good quarters I ilo not mind the rail much, but ofteatlmi on. ami then 1 urn out of luck, although it has to be pretty bad to keep ib irom ■hooting, you'll I aem In th< I am tin In ii. am a Bergeant In the I B. Arm;. Now. what do you think of tl Am Id and Into the Brat line trenches. Ob P THBRB and heard but the pi' nl is rapnel ami high ex round and in y of plan, s from tV. up In the blue. I will send you a picture ol myself In the outfit we bavi to I when Up (lose to U ltd if > "U tllitlk ll tO work in an outfit ol tl million things I would like t II you that I can't, but if you ■ you will i am tickled to be out I laugh when I think of you giving the : of the conditions hen and what we are up nd to say you have Is putting It mildly. I in ■.mi outfitted i ring that you ware going to k i one like It; vi | part an] that wants its kind can haw n II.. told im about the I then . said that he had Wad that you wars all buck privates when be left; tl an . query i put to him. I have wondered at difft linns if the bunch had ' or major and how the drlllini '""> for me in tin fact that mayhi Mom will i and .> hat an b i led war Is like I Think that i ha\e grabbed so pretty good stuff to time out . hope so at any rat.-, a^ I SX] WOrti and earn anything I may get in I the . and are putting on md lock, while and mys.lf are in the field. The Honorable Mr. is punching a typewriter, and damned glad of thl out of the way oi the babies that whistle so. 1 haven't had a line from the States as yet. don't know when I will, but it doesn't bother me any. you would be surpn-. little I • r: I have a vague n what It is like and that is all. I love France, and if they turn me loose after the war I will do no hurrying to get on the other side I will probably Bet to the big town for B little stay before long. Well will close now. Vii ild you all I can for this time, will just add another line (don't come over lure with the idea that you an going to get anything you don't work for and earn I. Regards to all tin : regards to yourself, from your old pal, IIAKRV THORPE. P. S. — I often eat and sleep in some queer places. I'jy before in a village blown to pieces by the Germans eating my lunch, which consisted of a can of beans and quart of champagne, some contrast, eh. Vic. 1 am sending Douglas a German helmet through the courtesy ol the officer who I am now working under, lie took it of! a German who was bumped oil by our men in a r. cent scrap. The helmet wasn't all he got In "No Mail's" land, he grabbed a bunch of good negative with his M. P. camera, if you get ovei here you maj him, he is 1st Lieut. K n. Cooper of the Photographic Division, and has been mighty line lo • Recent Motion Picture Photographic Patents. Iibatmcts !>> Bi K. Itcsi'iireli l.iiliiiniliirv . I . s. Patents). 1261800. II R. Evans. \ Two Coloi \loiion Picture Projection Apparatus in which red and green views are simultaneously displayed before two adjacent the light tays from such gates being directed bj double reflection prisms to a pair of lenses to throw superimposed images upon the screen. The film is advanced to the extent of one picture space at each cycle, and consequenUy each picture I oaoe at each gat.-. 1202954. P. B Ims. \ projector for Motion Pictures in Natural Colors in which two complementary colored plctun n i in n mged transversely hi each Other on the film. The pictures are projected through sep paths through reflecting prisms and finally thrown in a common regl -i h upon tin act i in. 1200324. i •:. Capstafl Assigned to E K. Co. lethod of printing on Dim, coated on both rides. lty using an emulsion which iolel and ultra-violet ligln and printing only with such light non. e sonsiln. layei to in jurtou ' to ol her. Ui ;:;:::■:.. p \> •Copyright. 1918, by the Chalmers Publishing Co. Ap|. Taking Motion Plcttl ll Iran lucent back ground upon which shadowgraph are thrown from the rem and photo .. ii of tin pha ami the bai k i ound, Ijijn E Keen, Assigned to VV. P. Dunham. An apparatus for Producing Motion Plctun arcnt lilins. each bearing an element "> Ihe plctun d and retained in adjusted po: ll i he eh menl ■ i on h to form a picture, which onto a negative film. Tin po of different elements are then readjusted and another picture takci a I reafa area ol in gat ive Mini. I'.v r< lei I mot Ion |)ii I'll tun are produt ed. 1261048 >'• ". Terry. \ method ol Making Motion Picture Films. lonur) elen i upon the film, and .. of n presentai ions of the n ,,,, taken, the portli 81m containing the Imprint ol marj elements being masked during the pi L 11 1 ill Hi. inov 1200337. i s.e 1260! l: M ('raig. A Moiiou Picture Film bearing Bi irds me face and ,,,,,, i on the other The sound records consist ol Iran Inns composed Of thin layers whn i transparent to the visual projecting light Infra red raj Ilrected through tin moving film toward a elen tri tter which Ii l with a "loud speaking'' phone behind tbi creen 'I lotion picture Images are transparent to Infra-red rays, and do not Intel with ih. sound reproduction. Conversi ound r i ion light, do nut no. tb Mo exhibition of motion plctUl 1260338 [Set 1260337. I l! M ,'r»l& A combined Motion Picture Apparatus and Sound : i A special him Pears both pictures and sound i I Thi latter co .,,. Ull|, ., |„.:i,n ,,i || a selenium transmitter with a "loud speaking idiotic behind the screen. 1261272, B. w My.-rs. Assigned to Masterroll Perforating Wacb <"<>. ,\n .\pp. Synchronizing Mu Ic and Million Plctl electrical switch is driven by the motion picture apparatus to flash a Ugn| lo ,j, rks on the moving roll of music corresponding to such flashes. 1261979. T T Tuttl* A Motion Picture Film, the edges ol win nt the o tened by cement, and fabric cut on the bias Is stuck to th< in 1260891. F. A and W. L. Trice. x |.-lllM Feeding Mechanism for motion plctun camerai Ii reciprocated longitudinally of the film by means ol a cam groove on the periphery of a rotary drum, while the Blm gripping clav transversely of the film by means of cams on ol the drum. (To be continued.)