EFFECT ON THE CINEMA

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 2

EFFECT ON THE CINEMA

If there is one direction more than another hi which cinematography has made progress during the last tow vears it is in the use of electricity (declares an exchange). The new extensions of the Gaumont Company, in London, furnish a striking example of efficient lighting and modern electncal equipment for producing ft variety ot “effects.” The main 2,21)0 volts supply is transformed down to 440 volts. There are four motor generators, and all tho conductors to the switch gear are bare copper rods run pi insulators to trenches covered with chequer plates. In the studio eight, plug hoards have been fitted, four on each, side of the building, fed by lead-covered paper insulated cables, the wiring- haying been so arranged that any of the four dynamos can supply either one or both the stages at the same time, so that each stage may have the total output separately or proportionately divided. The general apparatus available is .such that any desired effect of lighting—twilight, moonlight, lightning, cloud, etc., cap be produced in a minimum amount of time, and the Gaumont Company hopes, with its aid, to overcome many of the disadvantages attaching to outdoor photography in