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...Professor Wegener died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave he had wavered twelve miles toward the coast. He left his tent pegs there. Ten miles further on was the debris of a dog camp. Beyond, no signs...
Danger Lights (RKO). For this first important release to be made with the new Spoor-Berggren wide film (TIME, Sept. 1). RKO has shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives...
Natural Vision. In stereoscopy an object is photographed from two slightly different points of view so that when the two pictures are united in projection the object stands out in three dimensions. Inventor Spoor has obtained a like effect by using a camera with two lenses which record impressions on film through a single aperture. The illusion of depth is obtained not because the images are different but because they are recorded in "stagger" formation. RKO has rights to make one picture this way. It will be a railroad film with Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur. It will...
Carved Sound. In the past, sound-on-film has been obtained by electricity. Passing through photoelectric cells, the sound waves from the microphone have been translated into light waves to which the film is exposed. Inventor Spoor has a new system that is purely mechanical. The sound waves are made to actuate a cutting instrument which carves the sound on the edge of the film in grooves like the grooves of a phonograph record. When the film is run off on a projection machine the sound is released by a sapphire roller functioning much clearer, much cheaper...
Color. Inventor Spoor predicted that by Jan. 1 he would have perfected a third new device by which natural color may be combined with the depth of the new sound camera, the clarity of the new sound invention...