Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gorgeous brilliance of his wanderings and death were enhanced by a Wagner score, adapted from the operas and played by a large and able orchestra. What would be the effect of the film without the music is difficult...
...about the President and his wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took two pictures of the Chief Executive with his hat on, another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching the President's eye, up rushed Mr. Sears. He mastered the German mechanism and coached Mrs. Coolidge...
...London, a "master-film" bearing letters and figures in many styles of type, which, when operated by a keyboard, typewriter-wise, fractionally exposes a sensitized base to desired characters, where they were photographed. The base thus articulated, corresponding in function to type set by a linotype machine, can be inked and run off on paper. Different sizes in type are obtained by automatic adjustment of the focus of the camera lens...
...single spool of master film, 3 in. wide, 2 in. in diameter, contained the equivalent of 2,700 fonts of type. Spacing, column-width, style of type are determined with equal facility and speed. Telegraphy and wireless telegraphy can be utilized to operate several of the machines in various towns simultaneously. The importance, as prophesied by "two men in a back street," the inventors: to printing, especially that of newspapers, by saving millions in capital outlay for type fonts, many valuable minutes getting to press...
...replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable (largest size) of playing continuously for an hour without "changing the record...