CINEMATOGRAPHS IN DAYLIGHT.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 23, Issue 8, 30 January 1912, Page 7

CINEMATOGRAPHS IN DAYLIGHT.

A WONDERFUL INVENTION. The daylight cinema is an absolutely new development which England will troduce to the world. Though devised by a German inventor, the enterprise which has recognised its value and is putting it on the world’s markets comes from England, where at the end of the year there was floated very quietly a small company under the name' of the Day and Night Screens,' Limited. Their patent screen has been submitted for investigation to two of the best-known cinema experts in the country. It has been examined also by' Mr Charles Urban, the inventor of kinemaoolour and exhibitor of moving pictures before the King. Every one of these gentlemen applied his own tests to the new device in an exhaustive series of experiments, and every one of them has now cordially assented to its practicability. The device which lets light into the home of the present cinema exhibition is nothing if not simple. Its chief feature is a specially treated screen, the, background of scientifically prepared and dressed canvas absolutely impervious to rnoisturp, a magic coating of silver-faced material, whose in - gredients are a strict ■ secret, and a matt surface on the outside, which contrives, among other things, to give the picturh a “depth” and “atmosphere” and a bold relief never attained in cinema reproduction. This screen is chiefly remarkable for its almost entire failure to use up light by absorption, a characteristic wh|ch results in not only making daylight pictures possible, but in an enormous saving of electric current. The great field for the daylight cinema, of course, is outdoors. Indoors, it may work its marvels, but moving pictures on the beach, at the country fair, on the school playground, are bound to provide its novelty.