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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6338503 | Promotional display structure and method A promotional display structure has a plurality of elongate strips of stiff but bendable material assembled in a pack with their obverse and reverse faces alternating in the pack, the first face having textual display including promotional matter and in s... | 01/15/2002 |
| 5257066 | Pivoting film drive mount A mounting assembly for a film drive unit used with photographic film printers. A mount base having a central aperture is adapted to be secured proximate the optical stage of a photographic printer. A pair of substantially parallel rails are attached to t... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5171038 | Interactive advertising device In particular, the inventive advertising device comprises a stack of sheets stacked one over the other into a deck. These sheets are bound together by a pair of staples. The top side of successive sheets are imprinted with successive frames in a motion se... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5042941 | Process for producing animated films A process of producing animated films which permits greater rapidity in the filming, while at the same time reducing the cost. The process comprises the steps of: a) photographing a single time by a camera a black and white drawing of each of the componen... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5029997 | Stop-frame animation system An stop motion animation sequence of a tangible object is made by the steps of making a series of drawings representing three-dimensional object to be animated in various sequential positions; sequentially embodying the drawings on a projection medium suc... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4952051 | Method and apparatus for producing animated drawings and in-between drawings A method and system which enables an animator to make drawings and in-between drawings. Preceding and following tweens 74 and 75 are shown to the animator in such a way that they are distinguishable from each other and from the in-between drawing 73 on wh... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4878843 | Process and apparatus for conveying information through motion sequences The disclosure provides a process and an apparatus for a system of animation and a system of teaching finger spelling.... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4711543 | TV animation interactively controlled by the viewer An animation method supersedes the motion picture branching method by, first, enabling rapid and repeated switching of multiple tracks of different camera-originated animation of the same character during continuous action in a scene, and second, by enabl... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4695141 | Method for the production of a combined live-action and animation motion picture film The method comprises the production of a live-action film of subjects acting against a white background, making black-and-white subjects enlargements with grey gradation of useful film frames, drawing separate contour images from these enlargements, paint... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4632541 | Method of using photographic montage to make portrait photos in particular In a method for preparing in partiuclar portrait photos by means of montage, a torso specimen is combined with a head specimen previously cut-out along its contour and fitted to scale, and this combination is photographed. In order to prepare in simple an... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4569577 | Photographic animation transfer process A photographic process is provided for transferring an animation sketch or the like from paper onto a transparent cell for use in making animated motion pictures and the like. The animation sketch on paper is photographed to produce a negative of the sket... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4331396 | Camera providing aperture masking and ground glass reticle masking A camera for taking a plurality of exposures upon a continuous length of film includes a film transport/registration sprocket mounted directly to the shaft of a first stepper motor for incremental rotation thereby. The film transport/registration sprocket... | 05/25/1982 |
| 3969022 | System for producing a colored motion picture film from black-and-white medium A system is disclosed for producing a colored-motion picture film from a black-and-white source film. Each frame of the black-and-white film is projected as an image onto a work surface to which colors are applied within selected areas for combination wit... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3941463 | Method of producing a colored film from a black-and-white picture The method of producing a colored film from an exposed black-and-white picture and especially from an exposed black-and-white motion picture film wherein a black-and-white image is projected onto a surface, opaque pastel colors are applied within selected... | 03/02/1976 |
