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...adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have the new films and adapters ready by next spring. The price of film is estimated at about 50? more than fo soundless rolls. Price of the sound adapter: about...
Divorce. U.S. trustbusters won the first round of their fight to end Technicolor Inc.'s alleged stranglehold on the color-movie industry. The Eastman Kodak Co., charged with helping Technicolor to dominate the field by exclusive color film processing arrangements, signed a consent decree to make its patents available to all comers. Technicolor refused to sign the decree, may carry its fight to the courts...
Pretty Picture. Eastman Kodak Co., which has had a profit-sharing plan since 1912, will cut a fat melon. It will distribute a wage dividend of around $13 million for 1948. The 51,500 eligible employees will receive 2.25% of the pay they got from the company from 1944 through 1948. Typical bonus...
Ultrafax, by RCA out of Eastman Kodak Co., is a hybrid variety of facsimile transmission. It combines features of both television and photography. The material to be sent (text, writing, pictures, diagrams) must first be photographed on a strip of movie film. Using a kind of modified television technique, the film is "scanned" by a "flying spot" of light. At the receiving station another flying spot reproduces the material on another strip of film. When Ultrafax is really rolling, said Sarnoff, it can transmit 1,000,000 words a minute...
...year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount of detriment...