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...photographic film that is printed as a positive, no matter how old, can be put into any projector that is fitted with a Birch-Field "iriscope," can then be projected on a screen to show the scene's original tints, somewhat faint but true. Though few except Birch-Field had suspected it, the colors had been registered in the structure of the film since its first exposure. The iriscope is a simple transparent disk that fits over the projector's lens and is dyed with the colors of the spectrum in concentric circles from blue on the inside...
This pattern is not visible to the eye, nor when projected. But the light from a projector lamp is diverted by the aberration patterns into a conic shape that spreads out over the lens. Charles Birch-Field's iriscope adds the colors-reds in the outer regions of the lens, blues in the inner...
Many practical and theoretical difficulties remain before the process is perfected. Charles Birch-Field does not expect to solve the problems in his studio with his ancient, secondhand projector and crude equipment. But someone, somewhere, probably will...
Polaroid Corp. has an even more erudite scheme which will make use of the full standard-screen size and shape, will require no accessory beam splitter or double projector. In the vectograph, a Polaroid patent, the two pictures, one for each eye, are printed over each other on the same photographic film or paper. Incorporated with them is the polarizing material. When viewed with Polaroid glasses the picture is fully three-dimensional in ordinary light. When thrown on a screen from an ordinary projector the pictures are automatically polarized by the film, thus need only the viewing glasses...
...chief job was to provide entertainment for some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until...