LIFE-LIKE MOVIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18257, 28 November 1933, Page 3

LIFE-LIKE MOVIES

ACTORS TO STEP FROM SCREEN GOOD-BYE TO FLAT PICTURES LONDON, Oct. 13. Within the past week, writes the film correspondent of the Daily express, I have attended private demonstrations by scientists in London which prove that a complete revolution in the talking film is already a practical ’possibility. Stereoscopy is at hand, which means the end of the “flat” look of the film screen and the introduction, by an optical device, of three-dimensional actors who will seem to be there “in the round” or in the flesh. The actors will seem to step from the screen. I havo seen demonstrations which convince me that film television,

stereoscopy, color cinematography, infra-red cinematography, and perfect fidelity in sound recording and reproduction are no longer in the laboratory stage, but can be used effectively in the cinemas. EXPERIMENTS OVER The experiments are now completed. The minute they are commercially applied they will revolutionise world entertainment. Two Englishmen have done more than any others to achieve this progress—Dr. Herbert Ives and Mr Stanley Watkins. Dr. Ives has demonstrated that stereoscopic films, giving a definite three-dimensional effect, are possible. His system is to use. a concave mirror in taking a photograph, then to project the result in separate thin strips on to vertical glass rods, which take the place of the cinema screen in use now. Working independently in London is Mr Watkins, who made the talkies possible by the application of the* motor control box.