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search Laboratory, General Electric Company and Chairman of the Standardization Committee, gave a very interesting talk to the owners and operators of the Laboratories at a banquet the other day at Hotel Astor and aroused their enthusiasm very much on the subject of standardization.
Committee on Patents
The new Lambert bill has been passed in Washington, giving us about two hundred more examiners, at a slight increase in salaries, and raising the filing fees to Twenty Dollars. Propaganda has been started to increase the salaries of the employees of the Patent Office to a much higher degree, so that efficient men can be retained. The present bill is in no way adequate and will result only in taking young men who will surely resign and take positions which are open at a much higher salary and thus we will have inefficiency again in the Patent Office.
Standards
The Committee on Standards reports that consideration is being given to the size of lens barrels, also this Committee has endeavored to interest Film Laboratories in the standardization of density in printing motion picture films and to this end a Paper was read before the Allied Film Laboratories Association. This Paper will probably be printed in the Motion Picture World and is to appear in the American Cinematographer.
Camera
A camera has been devised by the Prisma Company which takes two identical pictures simultaneously. Mechanical features of advantage in color photography are also incorporated in the camera. The new features are designed to give all the exposures possible and steadiness in the negative records.
Pocket Movie Machine
A new pocket-clock work movie3 has been developed and manufactured in France called the "SEPT," consisting of a small camera with clock work attachment for the movement of the film. The camera can be held in the hand and can be operated without the use of a tripod or crank. Fifteen feet of standard film can be exposed without reloading. The camera is equipped with the daylight loading attachment. This camera will take either a single instantaneous exposure, a time exposure or a motion picture. By pressing a button the entire fifteen feet of film will be run off in standard time. It weighs about four pounds, measuring five inches by 2% inches by four inches, the lens operating at F 3.5 and costs about $225. The revolving shutter is not variable but fixed at approximately 1/40 of a second exposure, therefore the light control is entirely at the lens diaphragm.
Another pocket camera has been placed upon the market in which 25 feet of film is available without reloading. It is thought
3 Abstract of new pocket-clock work movie, American Cinematographer, April, 1922.
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