FredCDobbs

I was talking about cameras, not projectors. I guess you were talking about projectors.

Rotating shutter, film, and film "gate". The film moves down when the shutter is closed. When the shutter is open, the film is stationary and the claw moves back up to get ready to pull the film down again.

>I was also a practice to have the last sequence in two-color Technicolor, acting as a grande finale for the movie Yes, and I think the oriignal 2-color prints were much better than the copies we see today. I think today's copies have been made from 2-color prints, old copies of the colors already mixed, and today they tend to be faded. If you look at some of the 2-color western films made in the early 1950s, their color is fairly good. There is a way to get more than 2 colors out of a 2-color film. Such as a strong orange appears somewhat redish, the strong orange mixed with a little blue-green appears orange. The same trick can be done with the blue-green filter to get more or less blue or blue-green. And a good mix of the two filters (red-orange and blue-green) can get a good brown, which looked good on old Western buildings which where brown, such as houses, stores, and barns. The brown is also good for desert earth, and the orange is good for skin tones. And they also managed to get a pretty good black. Here is a 1948 2-color film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HUkW-lh64

Pre-Boom, maybe as early as the mid-1920s: Photo from a Bing search. Text from Wiki: George Jessel: In 1924, he appeared in a brief comedy sketch, possibly the telephone sketch described above, in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jessel_(actor)

PS: See this: ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8989 sepiatone Posts: 1658 Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:10 pm Location: East Coast, USA So who really invented the "boom microphone"? Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:34 am I see several well known Hollywood personalities credited with this invention * William Wellman(during the shooting of BEGGARS OF LIFE 1928) * Lionel Barrymore(when he returned to directing; credits himself in his autobiography ) * Dorothy Arzner(to better aid Clara Bow on sound set)

>>I read somewhere that it was Dorothy Arzner who came up with the idea of using a fishing rod and reel to place the microphones above the performers (like the way boom mics are used today) in order to increase camera mobility. True? TB, >LZ: I had not heard that story before. If I see author Cari Beauchamp at the FF in a few weeks, I will try to remember to ask her as she is quite familiar with Arzner's life and career. A couple of years ago I heard someone interviewed on TCM, I think it was a younger relative of an old actor or film technician or director, etc., and he/she said that her father/uncle/ or some relative invented the "boom microphone" early in the sound era. This allowed the hanging microphone to be easily moved around with the camera.

Hi, I like both FOX NEWS and CNN NEWS. One is conservative, the other liberal on some issues, but CNN is the best on major developing international issues. I also heard on both Fox and CNN that CNNs ratings have gone way up because of their current continuous coverage of this airplane mystery. This is what I like most about cable news, because usually one of the channels gives 24 hour coverage of major events, even though a lot of it is repeated stuff. But now with Fox covering other issues, and CNN covering the missing airplane, I have two news channels to watch. Plus TCM when TCM is showing old movies. These are the ONLY TV channels I need.

>even with Colbert, she is still a bit wishy-washy and cannot seem to make up her mind about men and matters of love. Aren't all of us real humans just like that?

Australia should have been automatically monitoring that part of the Indian Ocean before the airliner crashed. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar *Australia[edit]* *Official coverage of the Jindalee Operational Radar Network.A more recent addition is the Jindalee Operational Radar Network developed by the Australian Department of Defence in 1998 and completed in 2000. It is operated by No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit of the Royal Australian Air Force. Jindalee is a multistatic radar (multiple-receiver) system using OTH-B, allowing it to have both long range as well as anti-stealth capabilities. It has an official range of 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) but in 1997 the prototype was able to detect missile launches by China[6] over 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) away.*

I don't understand why all airliners don't have an On-Star type system, such as American cars have, that transmits signals if they have a wreck or an emergency. These systems are monitored 24 hours a day and can tell when and where in the world a vehicle has a car wreck. My own cell phone can be tracked anywhere in the world. Why wouldn't an airliner have one of these on board, transmitting info pings every minute?

I think Hell's Angels is a brilliant film and it should get far more credit today. The scenes of the Zeppelin flying over London are extremely realistic. The scenes of it crashing to the ground in flames are very realistic too. This is an amazing sequence. The sound is exceptionally good too, especially when we hear the pilots shouting while their engines are running. We hear loud engine noise, yet we can understand what the pilots are saying because the sound man mixed the two sounds just right. There even seems to be a flutter in their voices, because their shouts are passing through the gaps in the spinning propellers. I've recorded a lot of sound, and I know what voices sound like when someone talks through a spinning fan. The air shots are fantastic. I think this film is a little better than WINGS.

My latest theory is leaning toward some sort of fire or loss of oxygen in the airplane, and everyone passing out and maybe dying, and the airplane flying randomly until the gas ran out. In this map, the white circle is the maximum flying distance of the airplane with its fuel supply, and the red circle is the "last ping" limit of the satellite ping that went to the plane and back to the satellite, automatically, measuring the light-speed travel-time distance of the signal return. The two circles meet at two places, one in the North over Western China, and the other in the South Indian Ocean where the search is going on now. This view is directly above the satellite, so the red circle is round. The white airplane-route circle is oval because this is a side view of it. The far northeast part of the white circle is probably just beyond the curvature of the earth, over the northeast horizon. I read one news report that said the satellite pinged every hour, but only the last ping remained recorded, with the earlier ones automatically erased. . . Edited by: FredCDobbs on Mar 21, 2014 1:00 PM

Intelligence is generally last on the list of what men are looking for in women. Beauty is at the top of the list.

Yay, more great old movies yesterday and today too! Old Fred

Australian PM and media now saying that 2 objects have been found by satellite image that _might_ be from wreckage of the airplane.

The US Government investigator who never could find the missing airplane, Flight 107 out of Buffalo: Jump ahead to 19:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm9CxxZBR2U&feature=player_detailpage#t=1161

I think the guy in the background is Iron Eyes Cody. I met him and he was in that movie.

Hey! Dang! I found the greatest old classic movie channel today! They showed old classic movies all day long. Yay! 4:3, black and white, 1930s. Yay! The channel ID says TCM. I think that means Turner Classic Movies. Yay! Old Fred watching TCM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGU8_9UuSM4

>My point is that, if that were the case, the plane could just fly its regular route and take its revenge by flying into a building in Beijing, it's destination, instead of disappearing. Since it didn't do that, we could rule that out 10 days ago. The airplane has been LOST for 10 days, and everyone is trying to find it. It seems to have gone either Northwest or Southwest, based on the last satellite ping. The Wall Street Journal broke the "last ping" story, saying they got the information from US government agents, but they weren't allowed to identify those agents. The Northwest route heads out over Western China, the Southwestern route heads out over the South Indian Ocean, West of Australia.

I didn't say anything about flying into a building.

"Zero Hour":

Hey, we posted almost at the same time, about the same subject and the same idea. Boy, are we smart!

Hey, down a few posts I said this: >They actually should hire us to sit in a room and come up with possible ideas, because we know all the possible "plots" already. I was serious about that. How? Why? Well, the latest "theory" about the airplane I just heard on CNN is that "maybe" it got in the "radar shadow" of another airline and flew along just behind it and slightly higher by a few feet. Thus, it would miss being seen as a separate airplane by ground radar units. Ok, that plot was used in DESTINATION TOKYO (1943), when Cary Grant took his American submarine into Tokyo Bay, following right behind and slightly below a Japanese ship. The Japanese military had to open an iron cable mesh curtain to let the Japanese ship in, and Grant's American ship snuck in behind it and invisible to Japanese sonar. Maybe the international governments already have a bunch of old movie buffs working on this missing airplane case. Fred

Here are some technical terms that can refer to novels and films: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story