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...Barclay would make no predictions on the amount of film he thought the service would consume this year. Two years ago it shot 500 feet, last year 5000. On the recent commencement alone, 1200 feet were expended...
...probability is that Barclay will overcome his problem with the same finesse with which he developed equipment for the Special Devices Division of the Navy during the war. His task then was to devise sound tracks that would record accurately to the tenth of a cycle per second, to be used for scoring gunners in target practice. With this film, they could record the hits made in proportion to the probability of hitting. The Navy first took its problem to Western Electric and R.C.A., both of whom said they couldn't come closer than a cycle per second and were...
Present when the Navy conferred with the representatives of the two firms was Phillip J. Rulon, Acting Dean of the School of Education, who suggested that the job be given the film service. Together, Roulon and Barclay framed the equipment with which they were able to produce the extremely accurate track. Since they had no priority on materials, their resourcefulness was occasionally called upon as a substitute, such as the time they had to convert an old projector into a camera or make their own counter when they were unable to buy a hand counter...
...Devising the equipment was fun," Barclay stated, "but making the sound tracks was enough to drive a man to drink...
...making recordings for the Overseas Administration Civil Affairs Training School here. These recordings, made at various intervals of the student's training, were used as a check-up on his progress in the language he was learning. "By the end they got good enough to tell jokes," said Barclay, "but I never knew what they were talking about...