New Screen Techniques (1953)

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Record Details:

Title:
New Screen Techniques
Date:
1953
Publisher:
New York : Quigley Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume:
New Screen Techniques
Leaf #:
0009
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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Preface DISTINGUISHED in the fields of motion pictures, radio and television as a scientist, engineer and inventor, Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith is an authority well qualified to present the challenge of the new techniques. He is a past president of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers and of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He was a vice-president and general engineer for the Radio Corporation of America and for the past 20 years has had his own general consulting practice. by Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith rf^HIS BOOK on "New Screen Techniques" deals primarily with -*■ three powerful new methods now under commercial development by the motion picture industry. They are three-dimensional or stereoscopic pictures (3-D) ; wide screen pictures, having their width between about 1.60 and 3.00 times their height (W-S); and stereophonic sound, the distribution and location of which sound are both controlled (S-S). This book then is an up-to-date account of 3-D, W-S, and S-S. It is interesting to note that these new methods are old in their origin and were thoroughly understood, in the main, decades ago. Well known were stereoscopic principles and methods as used in 3-D, the laterally extended screen of W-S, the anamorphotic-lens methods, used in W-S, wider-gauge film proposed for W-S projection, stereophonic sound, and other elements of the