The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED. THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1911. THE PICTURE SHOW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 128, 22 July 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED. THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1911. THE PICTURE SHOW.

In these days of the popularity o! the picture show, it will be interesting to note that a still further ad vaneemeut has been made in the pro duction of moving pictures. A Lon don correspondent recently went t. see the colour cinematograph at tin Scala and regarding it he is enthusiastic. The great objection ti, the ordinary bioscope entertainment is the tiring effect on the eyes In the continuous flickering of unrelieved blacks and whites on the screen. Tin “Kinema-colour” process apparenth does away with this to a large extent, and the presentation of scenes and objects in colour gives a natural effect which almost tempts the onlooker to ignore the mechanical side of the production. Those who knov how very slow even tire fastest colon!' plate is compared with the ordinary photographic him or plate will of course, know that the explanation of the really remarkable pictures cannot he the use of transparencies such as the Lumicrc autnehrome plats gives. The fact is that Messrs Luba u and Smith, working on the principle of the Ives kromscop, get their negatives with fairly true colour mines by using two colour screens separately when taking their pictures. Those negatives and the positives produced from them arc only the ordin-

ary colourless things, the screens merely giving different densities. The positives are then projected very rapidly in succession through colour filters (green and red), and the rapidity with which this is done produces the c(foots which seem to the spectator so remarkably true to nature. The rate has to ho double that of the ordinary cinematograph, because the time occupied in showing two pictures (the one taken through the green screen and the one through the red) has to ,1)0 no more than that taken ordinarily in showing one picture. I lie use of only two colour sceous naturally prevents the complete presentation of absolutely realistic colourings, blit some compensatoin for the omission of the blue screen is found in the use of a green screen for projection, which allows the passage of a certain amount of blue light.