Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000271
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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3 DEVELOPING THE FILM One of the most vital technicians in all film making — the laboratory superintendent — is the "forgotten man" of the film industry7. The casual theatregoer may for years attend and enjoy photoplays and still remain ignorant of the value of this man's work. Yet he can make or mar the appearance of the greatest scene ever photographed. And by the improvement of his technique through the years he has made pictures vastly more attractive to the observer and, by the same token, dramatically more effective. He is in charge of all activities whereby film sensitized in the cameras is developed to bring out its latent pictorial image. He superintends the daily output of "rushes," or scenes photographed on the sets the day before; but his major responsibility concerns the making of release prints of finished pictures, the prints commercially exhibited in the theatres of the world. To convince yourself of the part plaved bv the laboratory superintendent, have the theatre manager in your community show a picture made in 1909, then one produced within the current vear. People could see pictures thirty years ago, but not much! The images were either blurred and indistinct, or the photography so bad that it lacked contrast and emphasis. [227]