DOUBLE WIDTH FILMS.
It. will be possible to show a film on a screen twico the. present width though the same height, by a new British device. This invention, Fulvue-Film, takes a panoramic picture, by a special lens, on ordinary-sized film celluloid. The imago is compressed and looks like a distorting mirror. Miss Sophie Tucker, for example, would appear painfully thin. Projected on to a screen, this is corrected back by a lons, and a wide, perfectly focused picture is seen. The obvious advantage is that, unlike other wido-screen proposals, the scrapping of the world's existing apparatus is not necessary. Another British project is the erection of a large factory at Elstrce for the manufacture of a new non-inflammable celluloid base. At present the "non-flam" film is too brittle to bo commercial. Mr. W. H. Pease, head of the new Celloda Syndicate, claims that his product is as tough as the ordinary stock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 11 (Supplement)
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153DOUBLE WIDTH FILMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 11 (Supplement)
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