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Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws (1919)

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Record Details:

Title:
Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws
Date:
1919
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1919)
Leaf #:
00017
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
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Floor plan showing theatre stage is very shallow, and has a decreasing width of Back-Gro-nd. ick Line Plan of Motion Picture Stage showing increased depth of Back-Ground Fig. I — Theater Stage Compared with Motion Picture Stage has a broad front line, below which come the footlights, and then a very shallow back-ground because the essential action of the stage must be visible to everyone in the audience on both sides of the auditorium. On the other hand, the motion picture photographer can select any point of view, and this necessarily has an enlarging background in the usual case of real scenery. The camera lines in the ground view (Fig. i) represent limits outside which the lighting units must be placed, except for trick flame lamp used to imitate lanterns and house lamps. In the vertical plane exactly the same rule must be followed in regard to increasing height of overhead lamps for the background. The excellent results from footlights has not yet been appreciated by the motion picture artists. I-C. ARTISTIC RELATION TO LIGHT Motion pictures only became commercially successful for entertainments when it became possible to select a subject, stage it with all the startling realism of the spoken drama, and give its photog 9