Talk:Silver screen

History section

I added a history section here but can't figure out why the sentences are boxed. If someone can help, I'd appreciate it! Thanks - Agita Agita (talk) 22:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Problematic "silver" and "lenticular" claims - request for comment

The article currently indicates that actual silver is commonly used and that silver screens are typically lenticular.

Silver is a valuable precious metal that currently trades in the $20-30 per ounce range. It was at least as valuable 100 years ago (roughly when the expression "silver screen" or "silver sheet" apparently first came into popular use) after adjusting its $1.35 per ounce fixed price at that time for roughly 2500% real-world inflation. Has powdered silver or silver leaf ever actually been used for a projection screen of any substantial size? Gold paint does not normally contain actual gold, and so-called "silver screen paint" is aluminum-based AFAIK. Is there any reason not to remove all indications of actual silver content from this article?

A lenticular screen by definition includes lens-like structures, typically tiny glass beads that make the image brighter for a more or less on-axis viewer. The word is also sometimes misapplied to ribbed silver screens. Both types have certainly been used for projecting home movies or slides in American living rooms, but are the "silver" screens now commonly used for theatrical 3-D projection either lenticular or ribbed? My impression is that they are not, but that is based almost entirely on Original Research (i.e., walking up as close to the screen as possible after the show and inspecting it), and mostly decades-old OR at that.

AVarchaeologist (talk) 20:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

To add to article

To add to this article: a mention of the "silver screen era." 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)