The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000163
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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THETALKIES 101 device, which removes all superfluous moisture, and prevents any water being taken into the drying tubes. Here it is dried at a constant temperature and is passed out to be wound on spools ready for use. Further tubes are provided with various colouring solutions, if it is required to tint the film. The film does not need the usual polishing to remove any streaks of dried solution from the celluloid side, because the suction device has already removed the superfluous moisture, and the film emerges from the final drying tube polished. Debrie, the famous French firm of photographic apparatus manufacturers, whose camera "Blimp" I have already mentioned, have evolved a machine which is extraordinarily compact. One unit, capable of handling well over three thousand feet of film per hour, occupies a space only twenty feet long by two feet wide. In the Debrie machine, the speed of the film is kept constant, but provision is made for variable development by altering the depth to which the film is allowed to enter the tanks. Superfluous moisture is, in this case, blown away by compressed air. Most of the developing plants in America