Motion-Picture Work: A General Treatise on Picture Taking, Picture, Making, Photo-Plays, and Theater Management and Operation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

David S. Hulfish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133215980X ISBN 13: 9781332159802

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Motion-Picture Work: A General Treatise on Picture Taking, Picture, Making, Photo-Plays, and Theater Management and Operation

The optical lantern is a device for showing an enlarged repro duction of a small picture upon a screen before an audience. The small picture from which the projection is made is most conveniently a transparent picture, formed photographically upon glass by photo graphic processes. Modifications oi the lantern may be made to Show pictures upon opaque surfaces, such as newspaper clippings or souvenir postcards, or may Show projections from solid objects. Still another modification of the optical lantern is that in which the motion head with its strip of pictures is substituted for the fixed slide in its carrier, and motion pictures are shown upon the screen.

The lantern consists primarily of a lamp for lighting the slide and a system of lenses for focusing the slide upon the distant picture screen. A slide holder is provided for receiving the slide and is adapted to hold it in position in the lens and lamp system. A lamp house is provided for the lamp, obscuring all light except that which passes from the lamp through the slide and through the lens system. The lens system usually is divided, one part being placed between the lamp and the slide, and the other part being placed between the slide and the picture screen upon which the image of the slide is to be projected The lenses between the lamp and the slide are called the condensers, and the lenses between the slide and the picture screen are called the objective lenses, or more briefly, the lens.

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Excerpt from Motion-Picture Work: A General Treatise on Picture Taking, Picture, Making, Photo-Plays, and Theater Management and Operation Twenty years ago the motion picture was a child's toy. Today it is the basis of a business giving profitable employment to thousands of workers, offering amusement and education to millions of people, and involving an investment of capital that places it among the world's great industries. The motion-picture maker sets up his whirring camera in the wilds and the crowded city alike. He records the downfall of kings and the inauguration of presidents, the horrors of great disasters and the deeds of popular heroes; he spreads before us in moving panorama all that is interesting in nature and in man's work, in drama and in real life. Every large city has its motion-picture factory, and every village its motion-picture theater. Into communities too small to support a theater regularly comes the traveling exhibitor with his portable outfit, and shows in town hall, church, or country school house. For so important an industry a book of reference and instruction is more than merely justified; it is demanded. The motion-picture field is broadening day by day; the details of the business are becoming more multitudinous with each advance. The worker in one branch of activity must have me knowledge of all the branches to be able to get the best results in his own work. This treatise on Motion-Picture Work is the first compilation to cover adequately the entire field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133215980X
• ISBN 13: 9781332159802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 712