Reel Life (1914-1915)

Twenty-four REEL LIFE The Practical Side of Pictures N English inventor is about to put on the T***™1* market a preparation which has for its object the lengthening of the life of films. The emul¬ sion when applied to a film after it has had eight or ten weeks of constant wear is said to make it equal to new. The ingredients of the emulsion are, of course, a secret known only to the inventor. Scratches on the film can be filled in quite easily, pro¬ vided they do not reach the base of the film. Perfora¬ tion also can be renewed. A test was recently made of the emulsion. The film was given a “brick bath” and badly scratched up but after being coated with the emulsion projection disclosed that the film was uninjured and for all practical purposes as good as new. The cost of so treating films works out at about a cent a foot. Through the courtesy of the Keystone Company, “The Chicken Chaser” and “His Favorite Pastime” were pro¬ jected at the Kismet Temple of the Mystic Shrine on Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, at a special entertainment given recently. A Power’s Cameragraph No. 6A Mo¬ tion Picture Projecting Machine was used in getting the Keystone comedies “across.” The Strand Theatre at Broadway and Forty-seventh Street, New York City, has installed the Automatic Ticket Selling and Cash Register in its box offices. The manufacturers of the register claim for it that it serves as an accurate and trustworthy check on box-office re¬ ceipts. The register is used in issuing, counting, regis¬ tering and safeguarding the interests of both the patron and house manager. Old fashioned exhaust fan system. Useless circulation upper part only, by old method. Hot stuffy atmosphere. Power’s 6A’s have been installed recently in the New Rochelle High School at New Rochelle, N. Y., the State Homeopathic Hospital at Middletown, N. Y., and at the Grand Central Palace, where the projection ma¬ chine will be used from April 4th to 11th by the National Efficiency Exposition and Conference to demonstrate methods of efficiency. The Ernemann “Imperator” projector, 1914 model, is being marketed through the Ernemann Photo-Kino Works, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York. It is claimed for the projector, which is of German manufacture, that it gives perfect registration of the image and absolutely flickerless projection. The movement is entirely en Typhoon Blow-in system of cooling and ventilating. Effective circulation throughout. Auditorium cool and comfortable. closed in a dust-proof metal casing. The machine is equipped with a maltese cross or star wheel which is constantly in an oil bath. A safety device well worth the prospective purchaser’s attention is the hinged door on the head, which must be closed before the machine can be operated. The film passes in a straight line through the mechanism into the lower magazine. The magazines are lined with asbestos and are made to hold two thousand feet of film. The condenser is triple, the lamp house doublewalled and lined with asbestos and the optical axis is constant. The working of the machine can be observed at all times through a glass window in the head piece. If the claims of a French inventor be credited it would seem that at last the synchronous photographing and actual filming of the voices of motion picture players on the same film has been accomplished. It has long been known to scientists that sound waves can be made to trace visible waves of varying contour on a moving sensitive film to which microphones have been electric¬ ally connected. A special film, double the width of the ordinary film, is used for the work. The left half of the film, after the voice and photographic records of the ac¬ tion have been registered, is designed to bear a series of pictures while the right half of the double film contains tiny depressions similar to those on a phonograph record. The one film thus serves as a phonograph record at the same time it answers all the purposes of an ordinary motion-picture reel. The Operator.