RESEARCH SECTION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK STATE FILM CORPORATION, NATIONAL ENTERPRISE

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• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Research Section of the Czechoslovak State Film
Corporation, National Lnterprise
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to The research and development section of the Czechoslovak State Film Corpora-
tion is divided into two sections, one working on materials research, and one
on technical research. Research on materials is carried on in a villa near
the zoological gardens in Praha-Troja. The chief of the staff is Dr. Feigel,
the former technical manager of Mimosa,., a photographic materials firm in
Dresden. The administrative chief of the section is Ing. Ladislav Krivanek, the
former manager of the Czechoslovak Film Institute. Krivanek is a member of the
Communist Party and has made two trips to the USSR to study. He returned from
the second trip in 1949 dis&,llusioned with conditions in the USSR. The staff
is to be expanded from 12 to 20 chemists. Most of the workers have no political
affiliation. Research on materials is at present directed toward the produc-
tion of a positive film (Kopie'film). This was formerly imported to the value
of ninety million kcs per year.
2. Technical research is carried on in the former Arcanie building in Praha
XIX-Vokovice. This section. employs about 25 persons but is in the process of
expanding to twice that size. Five to ten university students also work there
at irregular intervals. Some of the leading personnel include:
Chief of research
Chief of the .[lectro-acoustical
Department
Chief of the Optical Department
Chief of the Photochemical
Department
Dr. Miroslav Jahoda
Ing. C. Jaroslav Ledrer
Dr. Jaroslav Pechar, formerly with
Optiiko to chna in Prerov (P501030)
and with Zeiss
Fraantisek Sojka
3. The technical research section is concerned with the use of film and with
electro-acoustical problems. Light filters are produced and prototypes of
devices for amplifying, reproducing and recording sound are being developed.
This section cooperates closely with the Institute of Technical Optics under
Dr. Josef Hrdlicka at the Technical University in Praha. It has also
cooperated from tim(, to time with the ;,Military Research Institute (VTU) in
Tannwald (051/G36) on the determination of the sensitivity and quality of
photographic materials for the recording of televized images. The State Film
Corporation has maintained close ]4aison with the VT[J in order to obtain
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colors for the production of infra--red filters. Such colors, alcohol--
solublc: Azo salts, were imported into Czechoslovakia from the United. States
by the Czech Military Attache. The filters themselves are made from plastics.
A factory for the Czechoslovak State Film Corporation is to be :.wilt soon
near Liptovsky Sv. Mikula.s in the valley of the Jalovec Aver about three )ran,
north of Jalovec (Q50/Y10) . This site was chosen because of the good water
supply and the absence of dust in the area. In,;. Ladislav Kri vanek is to be
appointed manager of the plant. It is expected that the new plant will suffer
from a lack of photographic gelatin, which until recently was not produced in
Czechoslovakia, of photographic celluloid, which must be imported, from a lack
of machines used to coat the. celluloid with gelatin (These- machines were
produced by Koebig in Uresdeax,), and of accurate perforating machines,
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