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smith&aller, Inc.

DU PONT PATHE FILM MFG. CORP.

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BELL & HOWELL

BELL & HOWELL COMPANY, Dept. U, 1848 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, Ill. < New York, 11 West 42nd Street
Hollywood, 6324 Santa Monica Blvd. * London (B. & H. Co., Ltd.), 320 Regent Street * Established 1907

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CINEMATOGRAPHER

SEPTEMBER, 1930

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CONTENTS

ANNOUNCING

A PORTABLE
RECORDING UNIT
FOR SOUND FILM
• • USING THE

Vitaglo Recording Light

This unit is capable of handling
four mikes and is portable
enough to be carried in any
standard automobile.

The light and sound gate are
designed for installation in
any silenced Bell & Howell
or Mitchell camera. Installa¬
tion in no way interferes with
the camera's use for other
purposes.

THE VITAGLO CORP.

5050 SHERIDAN ROAD
CHICAGO, ILL.

Value

Economy

T HE GREATER the emphasis you place on extra value
in your lighting equipment, the more emphatically your
choice should be You are assured the

values of finer performance, more economical operation,
durability and the extra values that contribute most
importantly to the success of motion picture production.

represent the economic way to better lighting
performance. They keep faith with your needs.

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LAKIN CORPORATION

1707 Naud Street LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA CApItal 5387

Shown in tlie right light

chance to present her at her best, making her

For medium and long shots. National White

graceful gesture is registered, is made an exciting

moonlight effects, for brilliant, clear-cut con-

raphers have learned, that National Photo¬
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for unusual scenes under the most exacting con-

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M-G-M Develops a Control for Sound to Aid Talker Standards

by WESLEY C. MILLER

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Is Reflecting Its Broad Superiority —
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AND MANY OTHERS

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NEW YORK CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD

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BETTER than all the good thing s we
could say in a whole year about the
quality of Eastman Positive is the in¬
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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

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Equipped to Serve

The advent of wide film will necessitate the designing and producing
the film in its many stages.

. In addition to our wide film cameras, which we have ready fo
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