Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)
Leaf #:
000379
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:
November 17, 2022
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Motion Picture in the Army — Prosser 363 With regard to protection of the film in case of fire, in the case of valuable negatives, if for any reason a fire should start in one portion of the vault it is desirable that it should not travel to the other rolls, and the best way of protecting the film is to store it in one thousand foot rolls in individual compartments each one being connected to a flue and each compartment being insulated from the other. Mr. Briefer: May I suggest that in the case of hermetically sealed film the decomposition is likely to be greater than in a container slightly aerated. Mr. Crabtree : I think that is so, and it is bad practice to seal film in hermetically sealed containers. The film should be examined periodically and should be stored in loose covered containers. We think that a non-metallic container, such as fiber, is probably best because there is no chance of rusting of the metal; and, secondly, fiber or wood is heat-insulated, so that if one part of the film catches fire, the adjacent film will not catch fire as result of heat induction. Major Prosser : You will remember that I mentioned we had a specially constructed vault. It meets most of the requirements brought out by Mr. Crabtree except one : we have no cooling system. We don't store the film in hermeticallv sealed containers.