Richardson's handbook of projection (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Richardson's handbook of projection
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Richardson's handbook of projection
Leaf #:
000299
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
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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MANAGERS AND PROJECTION! STS 1223 The Projection Room THE advent of sound has necessitated a considerable change in the theatre projection room in order to accommodate the new equipment. More space is required, of course, and additional rooms adjacent to the projection room are highly desirable. It is not good business to attempt to jam equipment of this sort into space usually none too generous before it came. It may possibly be done, but as has been pointed out many times, it is the poorest kind of business policy to force men engaged in so important a work as motion picture projection, and especially motion picture projection with sound reproduction and projection added, into crowded, uncomfortable quarters. The management which attempts to "save" the price of making the enlargements necessary to properly accommodate sound equipment, is more than likely to lose ten, or even a hundred times the supposed "saving" at the box office because of the resultant lack of that touch of excellence which marks the dividing line between high grade and mediocre. Men in crowded, and therefore uncomfortable quarters, feel little encouragement to strive to excel. That is natural. If the management does not care enough about us and our work to provide a decent place in which to work, why should we make the extra effort necessary to put on the best possible picture and sound production ? is about the way the average projectionist feels about