DISTORTOGRAPH
NEW BRITISH INVENTION ITS LIMITED POSSIBILITIES The distortograph is an important development in cinematography. It is a British invention. THE device has been invented by Mr. H. G. Ponting and Mr. G. W. Ford. Distorted effects can be obtained by a new optical system used with an ordinary cinematograph camera. No mirrors are used in this invention, and it is possible to exaggerate any particular part of the subject, as for example, the eyes, nose or chin of one of the actors. It is difficult to forecast the use which will be made of this inventiou, but it is by no means unlikely that it will mark a big step forward in film making, and its possibilities in comic films and farcical subjects are obvious.
Never, according to exhibitors, has a Gloria Swanson picture aroused such a tremendous advance interest as her latest production, "Sadie Thompson,” adapted from “Miss Thomson," W. Somerset Maugham’s now famous story of a social outcast and a reformer whose paths cross in the South Seas, with startling results, as Miss Swanson's second United 'Artists’ picture. Raoul Walsh, of "What Price Glory” fame, is the director.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 16
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191DISTORTOGRAPH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 16
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