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...Ramsdell of Worcester Film Corp. brought nearer the day of movies in depth and color, when the screen will seem to be a stage of unlimited scope. Persistent, inventive Floyd Ramsdell does not use a double camera or double projector, relies instead on a "beam splitter." This mounts two lenses on a single camera, prints the two pictures-one from each lens-side by side in each frame of a motion film. The projector may thus be any standard make but is also fitted with a beam splitter which sets the two pictures almost over each other on the screen...
The result is a blur to the naked eye. To separate the two pictures so that each eye sees only the image meant for it, Polaroid sheets must be used in the beam splitter and also in glasses worn by the audience. Polaroid is a thin plastic containing myriads of...
...movies one major difficulty remains. All objects must be in focus, no matter what their distance from the camera. This makes the use of large "fast" lenses impossible because such a lens can focus only for one definite distance. With small lenses for universal focus the light must be intense or else the exposure must be too long for motion-picture...
There is a lot of vociferous action, and a sense of the wartime sea's lurking dangers. A gun, fired dead into the lens, is satisfactorily startling. In one terrific shot (made in combat) a Nazi plane, wrapped in a white fringe of fire, skitters on the sea like...
This summer Thurber announced delightedly that he could read again. With a telescopic spectacle lens, thick as a bottle bottom, he had managed painfully to scan a short sentence in a novel.