Abstract: A housing device for coaxial reels of motion picture film, intended to be associated with an optical block of a film camera is provided, including: a stage housing the reels and defining a space for guiding rollers for guiding the film in a loop between the reels and a rear presser intended to face a filming window of the optical block, each reel including two circular flanges for axially holding the film around a core; a main axis intended to cooperate with the cores; two secondary axes each supporting a film return idler and separating disks for separating the flanges of a reel; and a control unit for defining a relative motion between the secondary axes and the reels, between an idle position where the secondary axes are radially distant from the reels and an active position where the separating disks separate the periphery of the flanges in a determined region, fixed with respect to the housing device.

Abstract: An analysis method for cinematographic film uses a film scanner for converting the images of the film into video images, the film scanner having a calibration mode providing a standardized video reproduction of films and a manual mode allowing the operator to adjust the film scanner for improving the visual quality of the video images it produces.

Abstract: A movie film cassette comprises a light-tight casing containing an unexposed film reel and adapted to contain, after shooting, an exposed film reel. The reels and the film are positioned so that, in an operating position within a reception device associated with a movie camera, no moving element, located in the casing and contacting the film, is in contact with a fixed element of the casing.

Abstract: A cine camera employing interchangeable film magazines with displacement of the spindles of the film take-off and take-up reels, comprises an electric motor mounted on the body of the camera and of which the horizontal driven shaft is fast with a driving magnetic plate of a magnetic coupler which is housed in an opening in the body coaxial with the axis of the motor and of the shaft. The outer front face of the driving magnetic plate is substantially flush with the outer face of the body which is adjacent the outer face of the wall of the casing of the interchangeable magazine. The magnetic coupler comprises, in the magazine, a driven magnetic plate of which the axis merges with that of the driving magnetic plate. The driven magnetic plate is fast with a driving pinion and the driven magnetic plate and the driving pinion are mounted to rotate, in the magazine, about an axis which is merged with the axis of the drive motor.

Abstract: A camera system including a matte box assembly for use on cameras for supporting a plurality of filters, the matte box assembly including first and second support arms connected to and supporting separate modules of the matte box such that a rotating filter support module is rotatable independently from the other modules.

Abstract: On the marginal part of a perforated cinematographic film, are recorded coded information or "addresses" associated respectively with the various images of the film, in the form of dots disposed in a matrix of longitudinal rows and of transverse columns. Before each matrix of dots corresponding to a group of coded information or "address" of an image, a transverse framing pattern constituted by a single combination of dots, is recorded. Then, during the recording, in the different transverse columns, of the different successive characters constituting the same "address", a longitudinal framing pattern is recorded, along a longitudinal row bordering the matrix, this longitudinal framing pattern being constituted by an alternation, along said row, of dots and absences of dots aligned respectively with the various transverse columns of the matrix.

Abstract: A cine camera employing interchangeable film magazines with displacement of the spindles of the film take-off and take-up reels, comprises an electric motor mounted on the body of the camera and of which the horizontal driven shaft is fast with a driving magnetic plate of a magnetic coupler which is housed in an opening in the body coaxial with the axis of the motor and of the shaft. The outer front face of the driving magnetic plate is substantially flush with the outer face of the body which is adjacent the outer face of the wall of the casing of the interchangeable magazine. The magnetic coupler comprises, in the magazine, a driven magnetic plate of which the axis merges with that of the driving magnetic plate. The driven magnetic plate is fast with a driving pinion and the driven magnetic plate and the driving pinion are mounted to rotate, in the magazine, about an axis which is merged with the axis of the drive motor.

Abstract: A device for guiding a film in a cine camera comprises a channelled plate pierced with a window for filming and along the rear face of which is displaced the film. A presser member is disposed behind the film, opposite the filming window in the channelled plate, and means are provided for applying the presser member under pressure against the film and the channelled plate, when the film is stopped during filming, and for eliminating this pressure during the descending movement of the film. The means controlling the pressure exerted by the presser member on the film comprise a periodic magnetic field generator producing, during the descending movement of the film, a magnetic film acting on the presser member, made of ferromagnetic material, to eliminate the pressure of the presser member on the film during the descent thereof.

Abstract: A system of inscription on the marginal part of a perforated cinematographic film, of coded information and for reading this information, comprises, for inscription, an assembly of a plurality of light sources adjacent one another, disposed transversely opposite the marginal part of the cinematographic film. A write-in device selectively controls at each instant, the lighting of certain light sources, from among all of them, for the inscription on the film, in coded form, of a plurality of dots aligned transversely in a column. The system also comprises, for reading the coded information inscribed on the film, an assembly of photo-sensitive elements, adjacent one another, extending transversely opposite the marginal part of the film bearing the coded information. Means and provided for recognizing and identifying the combinations of dots inscribed on the film and corresponding to the various characters of information.

Abstract: A device for automatically metering and displaying the footage of delivered film contained in each of a plurality of interchangeable magazines adapted to be mounted on the body of a cinematographic camera comprises, on each magazine, an assembly of coded identification marks peculiar to each magazine. On the body of the camera, there is provided a device for reading and identifying the various assemblies of coded marks borne by the various magazines. The camera includes a memory with a plurality of zones allocated respectively to the various magazines and permanently containing information relative to the footage of flim consumed in each magazine. The camera also includes a microprocessor receiving signals coming from the device for identifying the magazines, as well as a metering pulse emitted by a pulse generator coupled to the motor driving the film and emitting a pulse for each image.

Abstract: A film exposing equipment such as motion picture cameras and still cameras is equipped with photometric devices measuring the quantity of light falling upon the film to be exposed. The display device showing the user the measurement result comprises a succession of light emitting diodes adjacent to each other, determining the measuring scale, these diodes being powered and hence lit up at all times with the exception of the single diode among them, which, unlit, constitutes the mark giving the measurement result. The succession of light emitting diodes comprises at predetermined intervals, specific diodes different from the other diodes by their dimensions and/or colors, constituting specific marks on the measurement scale.

Abstract: A moving picture camera with interchangeable film magazine comprises in each magazine, a take-up roll on which is wound the exposed film, and an electric motor rotating this roll.A measuring device is provided for measuring the speed of rotation of the take-up roll and for delivering a first signal representing this speed of rotation. A computer circuit receiving at its inputs said signal and a signal representing the image cadence selected and another signal representing the desired tension for the film, delivers at its ouptut a signal representing the value of the intensity of the electric current supplied to the motor, so that the required mechanical power, in other words the useful electric power supplied by this motor, is constant, for a selected image cadence and a desired film tension.

Abstract: A device for driving the claw shaft of a motion picture camera, comprises an electric motor coupled to the claw shaft itself connected to said claw by a mechanism of the crank-connecting rod system type, for converting the movement of rotation of the electric motor into a movement of reciprocating translation.Means are provided for modulating the speed of rotation of the claw shaft as a function of the angle of rotation thereof with respect to a reference position, so that the speed of the claw at the moment of its engagement in a perforation of the film is as low as possible and that this speed then increases, during the descent of the film, according to a law such that the acceleration communicated to the film causes only a minimum stress exerted on said latter.

Abstract: This device displays figures by a combination of five character segments.A first character segment is located in the lower left-hand quadrant of a matrix and has the form of a deformed C. A second character segment is located in the upper left-hand quadrant of the matrix, the outline of which starts substantially from the center of the matrix, follows the left-hand half of the horizontal median line then at least the upper half of the left-hand vertical side. A third character segment is located in the upper right-hand quadrant and has substantially the form of an inversed C. A fourth character segment comprises a first horizontal section extending over a part of the lower side of the matrix, at the center thereof, and a second rectilinear section starting from the center of the first section and extending vertically or substantially vertically to a point in the right-hand half of the upper side. A fifth character segment is located in the bottom right quadrant and has substantially the form of an inversed C.