Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws (1926)

Page scan 000173 from Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws

Record Details:

Title:
Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws
Date:
1926
Publisher:
New York : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1926)
Leaf #:
000173
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
September 12, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

A NEW CINEMATOGRAPH FILM FOR A LIMITED FIELD* ^T^HE PATHE Cinema Company wish to announce a film termed ^ Pathe-Rural having the substandard dimensions (173/^ mm wide) shown in Fig. 1. The advantages of a width of 173/2 niin are evident. Not only can the film be slit from the raw film regularly produced by the photographic industry, but the cost of production is lowered by the possibility of using existing equipment for making the new film; indeed, in the Pathe factories, perforation, printing, and development are carried out on 35 mm film, the slitting then producing two identical Pathe-Rural films. Fig. 1. Dimensions of Pathe-Rural Film. The images measure 9-J^ mm by IS-J^ mm, the projector gate limiting the projected image to 9 mm x 13 mm. The shape, number, and size of the perforations have been very carefully studied, and those adopted suit all the requirements. The pitch of the perforations, equal to the height of the images, is exactly twice the perforation pitch of standard film, in this case also meeting the re * Abridgement of Communication made on February 10, 1026, to the Cinematograph Section of the French Photographic Society by the PatheCinema Company. 167