The Daily Missoulian., 1911-10-21
Moving Pictures
XII.--Their Future.
BY Frederic J. Haskir.

In no other business, perhaps, Is
there 40 much speculation as to what
the future holds In store for IT as In
the moving picture business. Meas
ured in terms of dollars taken In and
paid out, i'm terms of men employed,
I'm terms of patrons catered to, the
moving picture business Is by all ODDS
the largest commercial amusement
ENTERPRISE ever known. And yet, men
who are In It and of II are net agreed
as to what the future will bring to 1t.
IT Is held in the opinion OF far
seeing men in the business that two
more triumphs of mechanical inven-
ton are required to place the NOV
ing picture beyond even the remotest
fear of ultimate disaster. The first
of these is already in sight--namely.
an apparatus that will reproduce
moving pictures In the color OF ma
ture instead of in the dead white and
black OF the photograph, or the mis-
erable artificiality of the hand
painted films.
The kinemacolor process success
fully reproduces in moving pictures
! on the screen the natural colors OF
scenes taken In the open where there
are great masses cc color to be seen.
II Is not as yet so successful In In
toriors or at close range. but there Is
little doubt that II will yet overcome
all these difficulties.
| Kinemacolor pictures are taken In
this manned: The photographs are
taken with camera specially con-
| structed to take pictures at the or
dinary rate of 80 per second. instead
OF 10. In front of the lense is re-
volved color filter. made like a
three blade propeller of three wings
of transparent cellulold, one red one
blue. and one yellow--the three pri-
mary colors. When the films are made
they are exactly like any other films
In appearance.
When the pictures are projected.
another color filter of the same kind
In revolved In front of the lense OF
the projecting machine. Thus one
picture IL thrown on the screen all
red the next all blue and the next all
yellow III. pictures are changed no
rapidly that the eye Is deceived and
all the objects In the picture appear
to be in their natural color. combina- :
tions OF the three primary colors II
is the three color process OF color
plato printing adapted for the NOV
ing pictures.
The second thing TO be desired from
the inventors OF the future is sat-
isfactory combination OF the cinemato-
graph and the phonograph. to the end
l.t hn nn n 0f the
, bi -dimensional theater not only will
move but will talk.
Attempts have been made to syn
chronize the Photographic film and the
Photographic record so ns to produce
talking pictures, but as yet these ex-
perlments have met with but indif-
, ferent success The necessity OF
changing cylinders or disks on the
talking machine more frequently thar
the reels on the moving picture ma
, chine together with the necessary In
terruptions In the course of the NOV
ing picture occasioned by the inter
mittent movement of the film. have
thus defeated successful cynchroniza'
ton.
The hope OF the future appears u
lie In the possibility of n machine
, which will take the pictures ant
make the photographic record OF
films to be played off simultaneous
ily. The fact that the Photographic
, film must have an intermittent motiol
, and that the phonographic film mus
have continuous motion, and tina
the sounds produced must appear t.
, be In exact time with the picture
AAI IN M
mountable obstacles In the way of ef
forts in this direction. But TN
, prophets among the moving pictur'
men refuse to believe that anything II
impossible.
, Two or three years ago there was
indeed, considerable cause for pessi
mism with respect to the future o
moving pictures 1t Is true that tn
showmcn had then appeased the op
position of the greater number of re-
tail business men by abolishing tn
monographs at the entrances to TN
, theaters, and by banishing the barke'
with his megaphone to oblivion. pu
mt the very time when this menace
, from the retail merchants was re-
; moved much more dangerous oppo
sition was encountered.
: This new opposition came. oddly
, enough, from the churches and tn
saloons. Both objected to the movini
t picture show. the saloon because III
, business was being hurt In dollars
and cents, and the church largely be
' cause II had not as yet studied TN
problem Then came the natlona
board OF censorship and an era o
marked Improvement In the mora
tone OF the pictures, until now com
parativelv little objection to movin'
| pictures Ia heard among churchmen o
r social workers. and most or what u
, heard, comes from men who remembe
Y the moving picture show as 1t wa
D four wears ago and who have no
seen the pictures lately.