The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-08-20

A.-Funnel. C.-hlnetOSrapn
B.-Phonograph. D.-Electric battery
Just tho same way with an opera. You
watch the screen and see a picture of the
stage, full size. Marie Jansen comes out
and sings and the band will play charm
ing Waiting minuet,' and then she dances
around and the audience applauds. May
be DeWof Hopper comes in and cracks
joke, or Digby Bell wakes up from his
twenty-five years sleep and asks if the
New Yorks have won q game yet"
How do you expect to do all that, Mr..
Edison?'
IF it is desired to reproduce an opera
or a play l will get the company to give
dress rehearsal for me. l place back of the
orchestra on table a compound machine
consisting Of photograph and kineto-
graph, with capacity of thirty minutes
continuous work. The orchestra plays,
the curtain rises and the opera begins.
Both machines work simultaneously, one
recording sound and the other taking
photographs recording motion at the rate
of forty-six Photographs per second. AZ
terward the Photographic strip is devel-
oped and replaced in the machine, a pro-
jccting lens il substituted for the photo
graphic lens and tho reproducing part of
the photograph is adjusted. Then, by
means of a calcium light, the effect is re-
produced lifesiZe on white curtain repro
ducing to the audience the original scene
with all it's sounds and all the motions Of
the actors exactly as in the original scene.
The photograph which Mr.. Edison will
use in his compound motion and sound re-
producer will be an Improvement on the
monographs now in common use. He said
yesterday that he had now in use about
500 monographs of which he was taking
ba ro-,,lt oP oil
these observations he will embody in the
improved photograph to be used with the
kinctoGraph.
The kinetograph is nothing moro nor
less than "a photograph camera arranged
IL il now way to do new work. Its name
implies its use. The name is derived from
the Greek words meaning " to move" and
"to write" and the machine literally fur
nishes complete record of all the motions
made before it. 1t photographs action. AS
Edison says: The kinetograph does for
the eye what the monograph does for the
ear In this small box camera Mr.. Edison
places roll of gelatine fiitn about three
fourths of an inch wide and of any length
desired. The interior of the camera is Of
course arranged on plan similar to that
OF which the ordinary roll cameras are
made. The gc!atinc strip is unroled from
Il,
in passing from the first spindle to the
second is carried before the lens Of the
camera. Ihe shutters of the camera are
arranged 10 be worked by the shaft at
tacAed TO the cylinder of the monograph.
THIS shalt also works the spindlls which
carry the rolls of film.
The mechanism OF this camera is so ar
ranged that when the shutters open the
spindles stop and the gelatine film is fixed
before the lens. In less than the forty
sixth part Of a second the photograph is
taken, the shutters snap, the spindles turn
and the gelatine slip moves on for Il new
photograph. The arrangement is so COM
p!ete that forty-six perfect photographs
are taken in one second.
The trouble with all attempts hsreto~
fore made to reproduce action and motion
by photographs" said Edison, was that
the photographs could not be taken in Sc
ries with sufficient rapidity to catch ac-
curately the motion it was desired to re-
produce. Hemment. the man who photo
graphs running horses in the thousandth
part Of one second, had the idea, but he
failed because he could take only half q
dozen photographs at a time. All these
photographs, If reproduced in o series,
would have shown a jerky and imperfect
motion. My idea was to take a series Of
Instantaneous photographs OF motions SO
rapidly that In the reproduction the pho
Geographic representatives become resolved
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