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 Giving the Motion Pictures a Larger Frame

Each picture will be one-third higher and one-half wider than the old standard size

���The white hne divides the old style film from the new, while the dotted line indicates its size in proportion. One "sees around corners" with this device

��ANEW form of motion picture which moves horizontally instead of vertically and uses a picture twice as large as the present standard has made its appearance.

The new picture, made on the standard motion picture film, is exactly twice as wide as the present picture is high, and its height is equal to the width of the present picture. This will give a picture on the screen of a different proportion from that now shown — one-third higher and one-half wider. The present picture is in the pro- portion of three to four and the new picture will be as four is to six. This is accomplished by running the film hori- zontally and using two "frames" for each pic- ture. Only a limited number of large thea- ters will show the pic- tures. The screens of these theaters will be increased in size to twice the present area. The figures of the ac- tors will be as large and even larger than those now projected so that an immense breadth of action is obtained as compared with the present very limited "stage."

The process is controlled by W. W. Hodkinson. He counts on a great addi- tion to the directing and production of pictures through the use of the larger

���The camera which takes the larger pictures is the "other way around"

��"stage" and believes that after the public has seen the larger picture, it will look upon the old film as it would on the necessity of looking through a knothole at the stage of a legitimate theater and show a marked preference for the new.

Mechanically the new process is ex- tremely interesting. Standard lenses are used in the photographing. There is consequently no loss of light. The camera is so gaged that with the standard lenses a tremendous depth of focus is attained.

The projection machines used in the new process are a tremendous improve- ment over those at present in use. A flickerless picture has been attained through simplification of parts on the projector and introduction of new shutter principles

The amount of film used for each picture will not be doubled. The larger screen, in which more can be shown, will obviate the necessity of the "cut backs" which are now used to show simultaneous action.

The new process of picture making is the first great improvement in the method of making motion pictures which has been introduced in the business, and it bids fair, in time, to revolutionize it.

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