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Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 6, Issue: 15, October 1922)
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Demonstration and Description of the Widescope Camera

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SMPTE
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Journal Article
Article Type
research-article
Abstract
The Widescope Camera has two lenses one centered above the other and a mechanism to focus them in unison. By this means we take an extended view; twice the visual angle of a single lens camera. The picture is taken on two standard films which syncronize in one wide picture when projected on the screen. (Passing prints of a baseball game around.) Here are some prints of a base-ball game taken at Harrison Field, Harrison, N. J. This picture was taken from the front row of the grandstand, 75 feet from the home plate and takes in the whole diamond and most of the field. The mechanism of the cam movement is much on the order of that used on the Pathe and other cameras. One cam works both film intermittances simultaneously. (Demonstrating.) The Widescope pictures are projected by connecting two projectors of any standard make with a rod and universal joints making one wide picture (exhibited photograph of two projectors connected.) We have not finished experiments of dissolving our pictures to a center, but this can be done by having two irises that will cut each side to a common center. I did not come with any prepared talk on this camera and hardly expected to be able to show it to you gentlemen in session.
Publication Date
1922-10-01
DOI
10.5594/J11670
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https://doi.org/10.5594/J11670
Author(s)
John D. Elms
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John D. Elms; Demonstration and Description of the Widescope Camera, Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 6, Issue: 15, October 1922); SMPTE, 1922
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