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I 1 I'.RUARY 1924
Pictures and P/chure&ver
~ Romance ,n ?a? Bark
yPENRYh BLAYDE
A film-printing machine at work.
The producer has given his last direction. The cameraman has turned his crank for the last time. Artists, electricians, carpenters, and the hundred and one people who have contributed, to the making of the film have packed up and gone. The producer gazes with a meditative eye at a dozen little tin boxes, stacked neatly on a table before him. He may well look at them like that ! The secret of £50,000 lies neatly coiled within those cases. It is all he has to show for countless hours of labour, worry and anxiety, for those boxes contain the undeveloped negative
One of the newest British Industries is Film Printing. Many factories now turn out the miles and miles of British, American, Swedish, German and French film that is used in the kinemas of this country.
A negative in process of development
being examined by dark-room hands. work depends. He can do no more. He must sit and wait until others have finished off his task. Come with me then, and let us follow the film from the time it leaves the studio until the time it is flashed on the screen for your delight. We will relieve the producer of his anxiety, and assure him that nothing is too much trouble for the magicians who will ensure that from those tin boxes a healthy super-film shall be born.
We will go to the Olympic Kine Laboratories at Acton, a factory modelled on up-to-date American lines. It is the newest factory in one of the newest British industries — film printing.
Figures are dry things — sometimes. Developing tanks in which the frames of films are dipped.
Winding exposed films on frames ready for developing.
of his film, and at present there is no one who knows whether or not his labours have been in vain.
Yes ! He may well look at those little round tins with an anxious eye. Poor producer ! Before his audiences can sit and smile or weep with his shadow-children he must entrust his precious work to other hands, on whose skill and care the very existence of his