Word: sprocket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, serious cinema students could find more nourishing fodder in: 1) the extracurricular Film & Sprocket Society at the College of the City of New York; 2) the pioneer film appreciation course at New York University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
...well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme Court refused...
...fact, Fox Film Corp. was contending that the man who in 1930 had lost control of that company had bought the Tri-Ergon patents abroad with $45,000 of Fox Film money and hence had no right to them. And finally it was argued that the "double print" and "sprocket" processes for recording and reproducing sound-the prime points of dispute-were not entirely fundamental and could be circumvented by smart sound-engineers by the time the smoke of litigation cleared. Nevertheless no one denied that R. C. A. Photophone and Western Electric's Electrical Research Products were holding...
...course where he plays in the low 80's. There he turned his keen mind to the matter of patents. R. C. A. Photophone and A. T. & T.'s Electrical Research Products were making and leasing sound apparatus which involved the "double print" method of recording, the "sprocket" method of reproduction. Other systems were obsolete. But William Fox was sure those processes infringed on patents which he had acquired from three Germans and transferred to American Tri-Ergon Corp., his personal holding company formed in 1928. He sued Paramount Publix, the Wilmer & Vincent circuit and a Paramount Publix...
Footlight Parade (Warner). The cinemusicomedy as developed by Warner Brothers is exceedingly simple. It consists of assembling dancers in as many improbable patterns as possible, photographing them from unexpected angles. In this one, the chorus warms up on a few simple circles, live-pointed stars and sprocket wheels, shot from above. The novelty lies in having the chorus swim and pose in an extraordinary pool backed by a combined waterfall and diving-platform. While still immersed, Warners' geometrical water-babies arrange themselves further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land...