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...Inventor Machlett's improvement is a success, it may be possible to use neon lamps in homes and offices to replace incandescent bulbs. The brightness of the incandescent filament is usually too intense, requires lamp shades. Neon light is diffused, needs no shading. It more nearly approaches daylight, gives off healthful ultra violet rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neon Tubes Improved | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Natural Vision. In stereoscopy an object is photographed from two slightly different points of view so that when the two pictures are united in projection the object stands out in three dimensions. Inventor Spoor has obtained a like effect by using a camera with two lenses which record impressions on film through a single aperture. The illusion of depth is obtained not because the images are different but because they are recorded in "stagger" formation. RKO has rights to make one picture this way. It will be a railroad film with Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur. It will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoor | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Carved Sound. In the past, sound-on-film has been obtained by electricity. Passing through photoelectric cells, the sound waves from the microphone have been translated into light waves to which the film is exposed. Inventor Spoor has a new system that is purely mechanical. The sound waves are made to actuate a cutting instrument which carves the sound on the edge of the film in grooves like the grooves of a phonograph record. When the film is run off on a projection machine the sound is released by a sapphire roller functioning much clearer, much cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoor | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Color. Inventor Spoor predicted that by Jan. 1 he would have perfected a third new device by which natural color may be combined with the depth of the new sound camera, the clarity of the new sound invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoor | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...jealousy of the laurels of literary-minded competitors than with a shrewd eye for cash profits. Last week the Shuberts said that they were going into the cinema business. Instead of paying royalties to U. S. patent holders they had bought a talking device outright from a Swiss inventor, one Oscar Lissau. Their first production will be a photograph of their currently successful comedy, Ladies All. They will follow this by photographing other plays to which they own rights. They will present their pictures for first runs in Manhattan theatres which they own. Meanwhile, they will continue to produce plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shuberts | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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