The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000142
Language:
English
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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88 THETALKIES what shade of red it is ; panchromatic, however, registers these differences correctly. Panchromatic (all colour) plates were only just beginning to be used when the war broke out, and their red sensitive properties were found extremely useful when making photos of the ground from aircraft in misty or foggy weather. The fog-penetrating properties of the yellow and red rays are well known to motorists, and the use of panchromatic plates, which could make use of these components of light, enabled our aerial observers to get clear photographs of the ground when it was, as far as the eye was concerned, veiled by mist. The Inkies have not entered the motion-picture field without some outcry, and in Austria the Sasha Film Producing Company are using a combination of arcs and inkies in their soundstudios, which are the largest in Europe. Progress is being rapidly made in readapting the arc-lamp to the new conditions of the soundstudio. A lamp has recently been produced by a British firm which it is claimed is absolutely silent, while in America the problem has been attacked with an electrical smoothing device christened by the American film engineers with that genius for picturesque slang — a "Whistle-box," Inkies