Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Oct. 5), Dr. Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer, indicated that he has been able to produce stereoscopic effects on the cinema screen. Last week the foremost U.S. authority on the subject, Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories, showed the Society .of Motion Picture Engineers at Swampscott, Mass, why stereoscopic cinemas were yet impossible in practice...
...Showing the left and right pictures simultaneously or alternately. A person by straining his attention can learn to focus each eye on the proper view. Or, if he sits at a certain focal distance and angle from the screen, he can look through a stereoscope. Or he can hold a mechanical pair of lorgnettes before his eyes. The lorgnettes, which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person...
...Another method is to make one stereoscope view through a green filter, the other through a red filter. On the screen the two pictures overlap as one confused scene when looked at with the unhelped eyes. But spectacles with one red glass or celluloid lens, and the other of green, resolve the confusion, give the impression of a picture in grey and white. This method has been tried out in theatres. It is clumsy...
...dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles...
...Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in Woolworth stores, proved such a smashing success that Kresge & Kress stores followed suit by adopting two magazines published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (Modern Screen, Modern Romances - TIME, Nov. 3). The success was repeated.* Smart publishers then accepted as fact the theory that women who never patronize a newsstand will buy io? love fiction, Hollywood chitchat, etc. where they buy their merchandise...