Earl I. Sponable papers, 1928-1968

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Series II: General Files



Box 2 A, 1930-1931


Box 2 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1930-1932


Box 2 Accounting Department, 1930-1931


Box 2 Accounting Department, 1932


Box 2 Acoustic control data


Box 2 Acoustic data, 1932


Box 2 Acoustic material, 1930-1931


Box 2 Address lists, 1932


Box 2 Aeo Light data, 1930-1931

SEE ALSO: Photo-electric cell calculations; Hotcats


Box 2 Aeo Light tests (Hoffman), 1931



Box 3 Aeo Lights


Box 3 Aeo Lights, 1932


Box 3 Aeo Lights, 1933


Box 3 Aeo Lights, 1939-1941


Box 3 Air conditioning


Box 3 Amplifier Data, 1930-1931, 2 folders


Box 3 Aperture data, 1932


Box 3 Assignment data


Box 3 Astro-Gesellschaft


Box 3 B, 1930-1931


Box 3 B, 1932



Box 4 Battery data, 1930-1931


Box 4 Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, 1930-1931


Box 4 Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, 1932


Box 4 Belts, 1930-1931


Box 4 Biased recording, 1930-1932


Box 4 Blueprint list


Box 4 Blueprints, 1930-1931


Box 4 Bragg, Herbert E.


Box 4 Bragg, Herbert E. (L-Z)


Box 4 C, 1930-1931


Box 4 C, 1932


Box 4 Cable data


Box 4 Camera data, 1930-1932


Box 4 Camera Equipment


Box 4 Cartoon data


Box 4 Case, Theodore W., 1944-1945


Box 4 Case Research Laboratory, 1930-1931



Box 5 Case Research Laboratory, 1932


Box 5 Case Research Laboratory, 1933


Box 5 Clarke, Harley L., 1930-1932


Box 5 Construction, Building – data


Box 5 Construction of Research and Development Division


Box 5 Correspondence, Departmental, 1952


Box 5 Curves


Box 5 D, 1930-1932


Box 5 Denison & Thompson (E.A. Thompson)


Box 5 Developer, 1930-1931


Box 5 Developer data, 1932


Box 5 Developing machines, 1931


Box 5 Diary, 1931


Box 5 Diary, 1932


Box 5 Disc, Stroboscopic


Box 5 Drawings


Box 5 Academy, Cinemascope, Magoptical camera and Projector apertures (418-C)


Box 5 DeLuxe Labs Western Avenue lot; TCF TV studios-floor plans


Box 5 Double-track system, 6-track reproduction (048)


Box 5 55mm Cinemascope-H.E. Bragg West Coast notes


Box 5 Film dimensions (Project 23A-55mm programs)



Box 6 Magnetic track dim.; 6-track recording and reproduction/35mm film


Box 6 Magoptical and optical and 6-track magnetic film/Cinemascope


Box 6 Printer drawings, etc. – Leslie


Box 6 Printer systems, proposed compression-70-35mm film (No. 833-1)


Box 6 Miscellaneous


Box 6 Duplex Developing reports, 1932


Box 6 E


Box 6 E, 1932


Box 6 Eastman Kodak Company


Box 6 Educational Films, 1930-1932


Box 6 E-J Electric Installation Company


Box 6 Electrical Research Products, Inc.


Box 6 Electrical Research Products, Inc., 1932


Box 6 Emulsion tests, 1930-1931


Equipment


Box 6 General, 1930-1932


Box 6 General, 1938


Box 6 Circulars



Box 7 Loaned, on trial or purchased


Box 7 miscellaneous lists


Box 7 outside companies, 1930-1931


Box 7 outside companies, 1932


Box 7 Paris, 1938


Box 7 this company, miscellaneous


Box 7 to and from Fox Hearst, 1930-1931


Box 7 to and from Fox Hearst, 1932


Box 7 West Coast


Box 7 Evans, Ralph M.



Box 8 F, 1930-1932


Box 8 Fader data


Box 8 Fahlbusch, H.G.


Box 8 Field outfit


Box 8 Instructions, 1930-1931


Box 8 Specifications, 1930-1931


Box 8 Field outfit data, 1932


Box 8 No. 62, A. Tice, 1932 June 01


Box 8 No. 69, J. Lillie and A. Tice, 1930-1931


Box 8 Fifty millimeter film, 1930-1932


Box 8 Fifty millimeter and stereophonic film, 1944-1946



Box 9 Filing system, 1932


Box 9 Film-miscellaneous, 1930-1932

samples tested; stored in: vault, film inspection room, Perth Amboy; discarded


Box 9 Film data


Box 9 Film Processing


Box 9 Film Processing data, 1930-1931


Box 9 duplicate newsreels, 1930-1931


Box 9 film samples tested, 1930-1931


Box 9 Fire


Box 9 Filter data, 1932


Box 9 Five Friends Plan


Box 9 Foreign data


Box 9 Forrest Hotel


Box 9 cases and two-door Buick


Box 9 mechanical designs


Box 9 new circuits


Box 9 panel layouts


Box 9 Fox Athletic Club, 1931


Box 9 Film Film Corporation


Box 9 Fox Film Corporation releases, 1932


Box 9 Fox Theatres Corporation, 1931



Box 10 Frequency spectrum


Box 10 Freeman, Alan E., 1930-1932


Box 10 G, 1930-1932


Box 10 General Theatres Equipment, Inc.


Box 10 Germany-Paris Agreement, 1930


Box 10 Grandeur


Box 10 1928-1930


Box 10 1930-1931


Box 10 1932


Box 10 1942-1947


Box 10 1953


Box 10 Grandeur (History -1960)


Box 10 Grandeur drawings


Box 10 Grandeur-The King and I

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 10 Grandeur – Mitchell Camera Corporation, 1929-1930


Box 10 Ground noise data



Box 11 H, 1930-1932


Box 11 Hearst Metrotone News, 1932


History


Box 11 1932-1938


Box 11 1940-1944


Box 11 1947


Box 11 1949-1950


Box 11 after 1951


Box 11 1957-1959



Box 12 various dates, 2 folders

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 12 Hoffman, Louis B.


Box 12 Hotcats, 1941-1943


Box 12 I, 1930-1932


Box 12 Insurance, 1930-1932


Box 12 Intermittent data, 1930-1931


Box 12 International Projector Corporations, 1932


Box 12 Inventory, 1932


Box 12 Inventory (indexed)


Box 12 Inventory (indexed)-Film Control Laboratory (DeLuxe Lab)



Box 13 J, 1930-1932


Box 13 Job work (Fox Hearst), 1930-1931


Box 13 K, 1930-1932


Box 13 Laboratory, Miscellaneous, 1932


Box 13 Laboratory, Film, 1930-1931


Box 13 West Coast, 1932


Box 13 Research-miscellaneous, 1932


Box 13 Lamp data, outside companies


Box 13 Lamps, Incandescent, printer, projection, miscellaneous, 1930-1931


Box 13 Lamps, Recording, etc.


Box 13 Legal Department, 1930-1931


Box 13 Legal Files


Box 13 Lens data, 1930-1931


Box 13 Library, 1930-1931


Box 13 Light valve


Box 13 Light valve data


Box 13 Loudspeaker, 1930-1931


Box 13 Loudspeaker data


Box 13 M, 1930-1932


Box 13 Mc, 1930-1932


Box 13 Mclntire, D.E.


Box 13 Management Board


Box 13 Michel, W.C., 1930-1932


Box 13 Microphone data, 1930-1931


Box 13 Microphone, dynamic and miscellaneous



Box 14 Miscellaneous


Box 14 1930-1931


Box 14 1932


Box 14 Motor data


Box 14 Movietone


Box 14 Movietone-illustration-printing plate


Box 14 N, 1930-1932


Box 14 Negative data, 1930-1932


Box 14 Negative half cycles, 1932


Box 14 Newspaper clippings


Box 14 Newsreel, miscellaneous


Box 14 Nicholson, R.F.


Box 14 Noise reduction data


Box 14 Optical systems, 1930-1931


Box 14 Orchestraphone Company, 1930-1931


Box 14 Oscillograph and Oscillator



Box 15 P, 1930-1932


Box 15 Patents and patent applications


Box 15 Payroll, 1930-1932


Box 15 Personnel Department, 1930-1931


Box 15 Photo-electric cells, 1930-1931


Box 15 Photo-electric cell calculations

oscillograph on Aeo Lights, A.C. Dickieson's file


Box 15 Potentiometer data


Box 15 Printer


Box 15 Printer, printing, etc., 1932


Box 15 Printers, 1930-1931


Box 15 Printing, film, 1930-1931


Box 15 Projection data


Box 15 Projection room data, 1930-1931


Box 15 Projection trucks, 1930-1931


Box 15 Projector data, 1930-1931


Box 15 Projectors, portable (Kolograph), 1930-1931


Projects



Box 16 General correspondence, 1928-1932


Box 16 Interdepartmental correspondence


Box 16 Aeo Light panel, biased (12A)


Box 16 Amplifier


Box 16 Amplifier (Project 5A, Fox Film Laboratory)


Box 16 Apparatus lists, assembly (Project 247)


Box 16 Buick recording car


Box 16 Buick sedan (Job 247C)

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 16 "B" battery investigation


Box 16 Color photography (Project l)


Box 16 Diagrams, miscellaneous


Box 16 Fader for projection room


Field outfits-No. 43



Box 17 Amplifier (247A)


Box 17 Amplifiers (Job 428)


Box 17 Cases


Box 17 (247C)


Box 17 (247D)


Box 17 (247B)


Box 17 Inventories (signed copies)


Box 17 "New Type Field Outfit"-Project 9A (general)

Apparatus design, Job 37C; Circuits, Job 37C; Construction Specifications, Job 36C; Design and Construction, Job 38C; Electrical Wiring, Job36C; Specifications & memo


Box 17 Miscellaneous



Box 18 Ford recording cars F1U62-1 to 1U62-10-corrected blueprint


Box 18 Grandeur


Box 18 Home projector-Job 219


Box 18 Interdepartmental memoranda


Box 18 Metrotone amplifier 4B, Job 366


Box 18 Microphone and amplifier


Box 18 Mixer part diagrams


Box 18 National Exhibitors Theatre TV Committee


Box 18 Negatives (miscellaneous)

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 18 OA


Box 18 One-stage microphone amplifier


Box 18 Outdoor projection truck, Job 220 Patents


Box 18 Photographs


Box 18 Portable Kolograph projector


Box 18 Portable projector revamped, Job 209


Box 18 Portable projectors, 25-Job 170


Box 18 Recording desk, A.C. Operated studio-design and development


Box 18 Rectifier drawings, Project 6A


Box 18 Rerecording systems, Project 8A


Box 18 Sanials Aeo Exposure Test


Box 18 Schematics, 247B


Box 18 Schematics and wiring diagrams of 247D


Box 18 Schematics and wiring of 247C


Box 18 Schematic and wiring diagram of amplifiers and associated equipment, 247


Box 18 Sound recording-wiring diagrams, Project 14A


Box 18 Storage batteries



Box 19 Projects assigned, 1931


Box 19 Publications and papers


Box 19 Purchasing Department, 1930-1932


Box 19 R, 1930-1932


Box 19 RCA Photophone, 1930-1931


Box 19 Recording channel


Box 19 Recording data-Aeo Light recording, 1930-1931


Box 19 Recording methods, 1932


Box 19 Rectifier data


Box 19 Remote contral


Box 19 Reports, general


Box 19 Rerecording apparatus


Box 19 Rerecording data


Box 19 Rewind data


Box 19 Ross, Oscar A., vs Theodore W. Case, 1930-1935


Box 19 Royalty data, 1932



Box 20 S, 1930-1931


Box 20 S, 1930-1932


Box 20 Salary data


Box 20 Sanial, Arthur J., 1932


Box 20 Schrunk, Edna M., 1932


Box 20 Screen data, 1930-1932


Box 20 Set-up data, 1932


Box 20 Sixteen millimeter


Box 20 1930-1931

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 20 1932

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 20 Slit data, 1930-1932


Society of Motion Picture Engineers

(SMPE; later, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE)



Box 21 General


Box 21 1930-1932


Box 21 1949


Box 21 1950


Box 21 Admissions Committee, 1949-1950


Box 21 American Documentation Institute, 1949-1950


Box 21 Awards, 1949-1950


Box 21 Board of Governors


Box 21 1930


Box 21 1931


Box 21 1932



Box 22 1949


Box 22 1950-1962


Box 22 Budget, 1949-1950


Box 22 By-laws, 1932


Box 22 By-laws, constitution, 1949-1952


Box 22 Change of name, 1949-1950


Box 22 Cinematography and Cine-photo Correlating Committees, 1949-1950


Box 22 Cinemascope, 1953-1955


Box 22 Color Committee


Box 22 1931-1932


Box 22 1949-1950


Box 22 Committees, miscellaneous


Box 22 Conventions and conferences


Box 22 1930-1932



Box 23 1939-1948


Box 23 1949


Box 23 1950


Box 23 1951-1953


Box 23 Emblem, format, etc., 1950


Box 23 Engineering Committee, 1949-1950


Box 23 European Advisory Committee, 1949-1950



Box 24 Fellow Award Committee, Fellow Membership, 1949-1950;1952


Box 24 Film, Development and Care of, Committee, 1932


Box 24 Film Dimensions Committee, 1950


Box 24 Film Preservation Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Financial Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 High-speed photography, 1949-1950


Box 24 Historical Committee, 1930-1931;1964


Box 24 Historical and Museum Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Honorary Membership Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Honorary memberships and degrees, 1958-1961


Box 24 International Commission on Illumination Inter-Society Color Council, 1949-1950


Box 24 Joint Technical Advisory Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Journal articles, etc., 1949-1950


Box 24 Journal Award Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Laboratory Practice Committee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Lens Calibration Subcommittee, 1949-1950


Box 24 Membership, 1951-1952


Box 24 Miscellaneous, 1961-1962


Box 24 Papers Committee, 1959-1961


Box 24 Publications and articles


Box 24 Publicity, 1951-1953


Box 24 Standardization, 1944-1960


Box 24 Standards Committee, 1932


Box 24 Standards and Nomenclature Committee, 1930-1931


Box 24 Standards Subcommittee: 16mm film, 1932


Box 24 Television


Box 24 Television, Large-screen-demonstration, 1949 April 04


Box 24 Television, Overseas, 1960


Box 24 Test Films


Box 24 Theatre television, 1950


Box 24 Theatre Television Committee, 1947-1955


Box 24 Wide Film Standardization Subcommittee, 1930-1931


Box 24 Wide Screen



Box 25 Splices and splicing, 1930-1931


Box 25 Sponable, Earl I.-letters from outside companies


Box 25 1930


Box 25 January-May 1931


Box 25 June-October 1931


Box 25 Sprockets, 1932


Box 25 Stage data, 1932


Box 25 Stage and studio data, 1930-1931


Box 25 Statements


Box 25 Steincamp, W.H., 1932


Box 25 Stereoscopic data


Box 25 Studio rentals, 1932


Box 25 T, 1930-1932


Box 25 Tachometer data, 1930-1931


Box 25 Talley, Truman H., 1930-1932


Box 25 Technical Board, 1932



Box 26 Tests, 1930-1931


Box 26 Tests of equipment


Box 26 Theatre data, 1929-1931


Box 26 Theatre Survey, West Coast, 1937


Box 26 Theatres, Newsreels, etc., 1932


Box 26 Theatre systems-public address-film and disc reproducers


Box 26 Tinker, Edward R., 1932


Box 26 Traffic Department, 1930-1932


Box 26 Transformer data, 1930-1931


Box 26 Transmission records and readings, 1930-1931


Box 26 Transmitter data, 1930-1931


Box 26 Tubes, 1932


Box 26 Unions


Box 26 Urre


Box 26 V


Box 26 Vacation schedules, 1931


Box 26 Vaults, 1930-1931


Box 26 Ventilation, 1930-1931


Box 26 Viewfinder



Box 27 W


Box 27 Wall, J.M., Machine Company, Inc.


Box 27 1930


Box 27 1931


Box 27 1932


Box 27 Weeks, H. Keith


Box 27 West Coast (General), 1932


Box 27 West Coast conditions, 1931-1932


Box 27 West Coast data, 1930-1931


Box 27 Wire, 1930-1931


Box 27 Work Books, 1930-1932

(related material)


Box 27 XYZ