Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-10

From the tank developing room
the films, still on their respective
racks. are hung up in the drying
room. A gas plate from the out
side is lighted. An electric fan.
just inside the driving room. beside
aperture. sucks in the hot air. A
hole in the top of the room makes
an exit for the hot air. after it has
served it's purpose of going up
through the strips of films, drying
them. In the Lear future, Mr.. Man.
sur is going to install a second drying
room and have it so arranged. that
the hot air will go from the first
drying room, into the second drying
room. thus serving a double pur-
pose. Another score of efficiency.
It takes but a half hour to dry the
cabinet full of wet films, having them
ready to be printed.
The 30-inch heater is source of
pride to Mr.. Mansur. 1t is big, but
he believes in having plenty of heat
when heat is needed. In the base
ment is room in which he makes
lantern slides. He does great deal
Of work for the State, especially for
the highway and educational depart
mentS.
All the chemicals are mixed by
Mr.. Mansur and his assistants and
this is done in the basement.
A doctoring bench. (why quote
doctoring, now we are devling in
photography parlance?) is in the
basement. Here the careful eye of
the photographer catches the defects
in the film and corrects them. before
they are shown up in the picture.
Printing Room
In the printing room there is
plenty of room for everybody. In
the summer time, Photographic
best season, five and six persons
may be found busily at work in the
printing room.
This equipment rs an amateur
printer. the films being fed into the
machine strips. Each strip is auto
matically numbered by the attached
numbering machine. The number is
the guide line for the. order. This
machine can print ten strips to one
done by the old fashioned process.
Films of dimensions of SKI inches to
the smallest size are printed in this
achine.
The portrait printer turns out pic
lures from SKI to 11x14. But where
are those long pictures, several feet
OF them. printed, you ask. In this
circuit printer the work is done, if
you please. In this equipment,
called the circuit printer, four-foot
pictures are printed.
Protector Printer
Here is the baby of the family"
and 1 stretched my neck up. to look
at, what reminded me, a huge cam
of crane. BY baby of the family,
1 soon learned, Mr.. Mansur meant his
latest piece of studio equipment.
This protector is used in charging
pictures, from any size up to, and
including 11X14 inches. The space,
the diminsions of the desired en-
largement, is measured off on the
base. The film or plate on the pro-
jector is reflected on to the enlarge
ll.Shl SPdIS, Wy llSsiliS " Stl Ol1S liz
back of it. Further adjustment
places the reflection at the desired
size. The proper application of the
printing paper, starts that work
along. This baby was installed at
the cost of $3.50.
The windows in the printing room
are so rugged. that they can be open
cd, full length, thus airing out and
changing the air. doing away with
the prevailing STIFFNESS, such as one
encounters in old style rooms of this
sort. .
An electric washing machine? Is
the family washing done here? And
that is an electric drying machine?
Is that for the laundry as well? The
electric washing machine holds the
pictures to be washed. They are turn
ed over and over, within a huge per-
forated cylinder, that holds them
fast, but lets all the water in and out.
The water comes in at the bottom
and after circulating about, goes out
at the top. This insures a fresh flow
Of water. does away with the SER
vices of a worker standing there
and paving the pictures over and is
another score for efficiency. ----
The electric drying machine,
through which the pictures are rolled,
il capable of three speeds. Three 100
watt filaments furnish the heat. The
slow speed is for the better grade Of
pictures and will carry one through
in Il to IA minutes. The second de-
gree or intermediate will dry a pic
ture in 10 minutes. The amateur ma
terial can be dried in 1-2 minutes,
dropped into the pan ready to sort.
AS each order has number stamp
ed on the back--we mentioned that
several paragraphs back in the print
ing room-the completed picture IS
placed in cubby-hole in a rack,
which looks very much like post Of
flee. For the commercial work, each
dealer has a number. A rack Of rub
Der stamps bear the names of the
dealers all over the State, who send
work to Mr.. Mansur. The stamps for
the different agencies are put into use
in speeding the work along. Just
as soon as the roads dry up. Mr.. Man.
sur is going out after more agencies.
Summer Camp Work
Last summer, Mr.. Mansur visited
81 summer camps in Maine and took
views Of the camp activities. showing
the life which the boys and girls en-
JOY at these places. For IA years he
has been making these summer visits
and has built up wonderful trade
in this department OF the work.
In his sorting room, he has special
rack. which bears a place for each of