STILL ELUDES THEM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 14

STILL ELUDES THEM

Three-Dimensional Film Only one great problem remains to be solved in screen photography, according to John Arnold, camera chief at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. In spite of the tremendous progress of screen photography, the third dimen sion is still the same bewildering mystery. Arnold, who is responsible for manyoutstanding developments in film photography since sound, believes that tho problem of colour has been solved as nearly as it ever will be. Camera motions and effects, he says, have been to a great degree perfected. Arnold has announced the discovery of a noiseless camera principle that will permit work with the light equipment of silent days, thus removing the last barrier the advent of sound placed against location work. Portable sound recording equipment is now in common use. Arnold believes that the future will see this perfected possibly through some refraction process, and then "actual life” pictures will become possible. It may, however, he adds, take years. "Whether colour will last in screen drama is hard, to predict,” he says. "There hav been many improvements since, and its popularity in cartoon subjects is established in the HarmanIsing and Disney creations. But seeing an entire feature in colours still carries the dariger of eye fatigue, despite the fineness of the new colour films. ’ ’ Musical films such as "Rose Marie” and similar works, Arnold believes, will have increasing popularity with the great improvements in sound photography or recording.