Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 24, Issue: 1, January 1935)
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The Development of 16-MM. Sound Motion Pictures
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- J SMPE
- Volume
- 24, No. 1, pp. 63–90
- Abstract
- The history of 16-mm. development and some of the problems with which the engineers were confronted in the effort to obtain good sound quality are outlined. In view of the difficulties with 35-mm. film, and the greatly reduced speed at which 16-mm. film must run, the prospect of obtaining really satisfactory sound was at first far from encouraging; but with careful technic, commercial quality was obtained, and continuous progress has been made since. Elimination of printing losses by recording directly on each 16-mm. film from a good 35-mm. master print with suitable electrical compensation for high-frequency losses, gave the best films obtainable. Improvements in optical reduction sound printers have more recently made this system look extremely promising. Extended studies of film characteristics and processing, and improvements in optical recording systems have contributed in an important way to securing better sound. — Projector design has centered about questions of compactness, convenience, and simplicity as well as performance. Several of these items are discussed, and expedients employed are described. — The advent of real amateur talking pictures calls for complete sound and picture recording apparatus of utmost portability and simplicity. In this undertaking the quality problems are renewed in more difficult form, and many new problems of electrical, optical, and mechanical, as well as photographic nature, had to be solved.
- Publication Date
- 1935-01-01
- DOI
10.5594/J05436- ISSN
- Print:
0097-5834 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J05436
- Author(s)
- E. W. KelloggRCA Victor Company, Inc., Camden, New Jersey.
- Copyright
- © 1935 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- 16 mm. Sound Film Dimensions [Active]
- Sound Recording and Reproducing Using 16-mm. Film [Active]
- Scanning Losses in Reproduction [Active]
- A 16-mm. Sound Recording Camera [Active]
- A Non-Slip Sound Printer [Active]
- Optical Reduction Sound Printing [Active]
- Sixteen-MM. Sound-on-Film [Active]
- High Frequency Response from Variable Width Records as Affected by Exposure and Development [Active]
- The Aperture Effect [Active]
- Galvanometers for Variable Area Recording [Active]
- 1 Batsel C. N. Baker J. O. : “Sound Recording and Reproducing Using 16-Mm. Film,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXI (Aug., 1933 ), No. 2 , p. 161 . EXTERNAL
- 10 Batsel C. N. Sachtleben L. T. Dimmick G. L. : “A 16-Mm. Sound Recording Camera,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXIII (Aug., 1934 ), No. 2 , p. 87 . EXTERNAL
- 2 Cook E. D. : “The Aperture Effect,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XIV (June, 1930 ), No. 6 , p. 650 . EXTERNAL
- 3 Stryker N. R. : “Scanning Losses in Reproduction,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XV (Nov., 1930 ), No. 5 , p. 610 . EXTERNAL
- 4 Dimmick G. L. : “High-Frequency Response from Variable-Width Records as Affected by Exposure and Development,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XVII (Nov., 1931 ), No. 5 , p. 766 . EXTERNAL
- 5 Dimmick G. L. : “Galvanometers for Variable-Area Recording,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XV (Oct., 1930 ), No. 4 , p. 428 . EXTERNAL
- 6 Batsel O. N. : “A Non-Slip Sound Printer,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXIII (Aug., 1934 ), No. 2 , p. 100 . EXTERNAL
- 7 Dimmick G. L. Batsel C. N. Sachtleben L. T. : “Optical Reduction Sound Printing,” J. Soc. Mot. Pcit. Eng. , XXIII (Aug., 1934 ), No. 2 , p. 108 :. EXTERNAL
- 8 Baker J. O. : “Sixteen-Mm. Sound on Film,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXII (Feb., 1934 ), No. 2 , p. 139 . EXTERNAL
- 9 May R. P. : “16-Mm. Sound Film Dimensions,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XVIII (April, 1932 ), No. 4 , p. 488 . EXTERNAL
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