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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Figure i. back piece and nuts to railings or posts, projecting parts ofgrand stands, and similar vantage points. Figure 2, for in-stance, shows it secured by permission to some railings sur-mounting a conveniently placed wall, on which there is justroom for the operator to stand. Needless to say, the bracketmust be so strongly made as to be free from all shake orvibration, and the nuts must be screwed up tightly. Theselected support should also be tested for solidity and firmness.As might be expected, it is much more difficult to print asatisfactory positive film than to make a decent negative, andthose who find it troublesome will be wise to entrust theprinting to a trade firm. 80
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Figure 2. From a commercial point of view there is little gained byproducing the positive oneself, for purchasers of any standingvery naturally prefer to have sole possession of the negativefilm, from which they are quite capable of judging the ulti-mate effect, and are not much interested in offers of positives.The latter, however, are sometimes saleable to managers ofcinema halls when of special local attraction, as in the case offire scenes, fetes, election incidents, important weddings, etc. With regard to exhibiting, undoubtedly the most commoncomplaint is that of inadequately lighted pictures on the screen,and it is one by no means confined to the amateur, as thosewho have strained their eyes in some of the cheaper cinematheatres can testify. The most general cause is an ambitiousattempt to get a larger projected image than is practicablewith the illuminant used. It is but little realized how very much greater is the degreeof enlargement of a film picture as compared with a lant

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