The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000172
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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IIO THE TALKIES ratio with the number of times the film is run through and rewound, the increase of noise is more rapid with films of lesser density. Most of us are familiar with the printing frames used for printing snapshots, and manywill anyhow have tried their hand at making prints by artificial light on paper which requires developing in much the same way as a plate or film. It will be readily realized that the printing of a strip of twenty or thirty thousand pictures cannot be achieved in an ordinary frame. Special printing machines have long been in existence for this task, but they, like all the rest of the apparatus connected with the film industry, have had to be re-designed for Talkie work. The principle on which most machines work is very much the same, and they are divided into two types. The "step by step" printer and the "continuous" printer. In both types the developed negative is contained on a spool on one side of the machine above which is the spool containing the raw positive film, which has to be brought into close contact with the negative before a light, so that the image on the negative can be printed on to the positive. The two films are led by toothed sprockets over a curved "gate" under which the