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Last week demonstrations by Floyd 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...
...containing myriads of tiny, imbedded, needle-like crystals of iodo-sulfate of quinine, all parallel. When a beam of light strikes the sheet all light waves that are vibrating in the plane of the crystals pass through, all others are stopped. Thus the two beams of light from the projector are filtered so that their waves are at right angles to each other. The observer wears similar Polaroid glasses so that his right eye sees only the picture from the right-hand camera lens; the left eye sees only the other picture...
...multiple projector for use against tanks. It fires 20 to 30 rocket shells at once. Tanks which cross its pattern of fire are in somewhat the same fix as a rabbit in front of a double-barreled shotgun...
Dirt-chaser John S. Sumner, predicting a war boom for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, tabulated his booty for 1941: 13,198 photographs, movie films, negatives, 8,668 books, magazines, pamphlets, 300 printed cards, one movie projector, one gambling outfit, one revolver, 10,406 unspecified "novelties...
...adaptation." He described his "smilometer," a wooden box almost five feet long filled with machinery as intricate as a Rube Goldberg invention. At one end an oval opening is cut out for a patient to insert his face. Inside the box is: I) a time clock; 2) a movie projector which reels off Mickey Mouse or The Ugly Duckling on a small translucent screen; 3) a concealed motion-picture camera which takes shots of the patient's smiles...