Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, 31, mate of Tarzan on the screen, wife of Lieut. Commander John Farrow of the Royal Canadian Navy off it: a son, 9 Ib. 8 oz.; in Hollywood...
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...
Objects in the foreground are widely separated on the screen. Those in the far background are the same in both pictures. The result is a realistic impression of distance and shape...
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...
...expressions of disapproval soon turned into laughter when some of the "definitions" were flashed on the screen. "Cosine is the opposite of stop sign. An erg is an urge. A millimeter is a bug with a large number of legs." Many members of the class were heard to say when leaving that some of Ufford's experiments were infinitely more amusing, recalling the time to whipped out an umbrella from behind the table to shield himself during one of the wetter ones...