The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-30
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graphs Can be Taken Every Half
.so,,r. So that an opera Can be Wit
messed at Home.
From the Nelc York Herald.
from the laboratory of the Wizard of
Esnto park there is coming an invention
I bicb out-Edisons Edison.
II is the marriage Of the phonograph with
- camera-the union in one instrument Of
sbund and sight.
with it the opera can DO carried into the
4.rlor and the artists can not only be
heard but seen.
4 The popular preacher, the eminent public
4naaker. with it can all be brought to the
home.
4 The new wonder will be called the "kineto-
Sraph, strange sounding title to the ear
&,day, but destined perhaps soon to become
1, FAMILIAR as locomotive or telephone. both
&+rsnee words in their infancy. Mr.. Edison
H. been at work on this newest conception
N his genius for three years. Now he
krogs that its base principle is right all
hat remains TO be done is to perfect the de-
balls.
The new invention is a combination ma
chine, in which the photograph and the
photographic camera work together. 1t
Twill reproduce not only sound, but also
picture Of what passes before it. Not a
'Inere instantaneous impression of objects,
hut a continuous representation of them for
Ia considerable space Of time.
IN Mr.. Edison claims it will reproduce an
Hopera- The photographer will render the
music aud the photograph apparatus will
reproduce the performers so that their
presence on the stage will be depicted, every
muscle of their faces will be seen to work,
their strides, movements, all will be true to
"a nature.
In other words, the camera will give
continuous picture of singer on the stage
N for say thirty minutes, all his motions and
"A gestures, while its ally, the photograph, will
record every note he utters.
To produce this result it was necessary for
the inventor to be able to take a series of
instantaneous photographs. following each
other in such quick succession that no lapse
of time can be detected between the impress
sions recorded, and the series of pictures be-
~ come in effect but one continuous picture.
And this Mr.. Edison has succeeded in
doing Operated by an electric motor, his
camera will take forty-six impressions in
a each second of time, and in this way the
i impressions are recorded so rapidly that the
4 motions become resolved into pure motion,
instead of a series of jerks. The impress
sions are recorded on a long roll of geatine
\ paper fastened to a spindle, which passes
4 over Photographic lens.
4 This is how Mr. Edison himself describes
4 the wonder: "The machine starts, moves,
uncloses, stops, takes photograph, Closes
starts, uncloses, stops, takes another, and so
on. and forty-six of these are recorded every
second"
And this process can be kept I'D for thirty
minutes without pause. So 2,760 photo
graphs can be taken each minnie and 81, 800
every half hour. Thus the full repr ssenta~
ton of say, an opera, the movement on
the stage and music can be recorded by this
novel machine.
AS LARGE AS LIFE.
Mr.. Edison has no doubt that he will live
to see an opera recorded and reproduced by
the photograph. Said he:
81 take, for example, dress rehearsal of
'Erminie' l will place my machine on a
table in front of the stage. The two agen-
cies, the photograph and the photograph,
will work together in harmony and with
continuous capacity of thirty minutes
Both will start as the curtain rises. The
photograph will record the music while
the photograph will record the motions of
the performers at the rate of forty-six I'M
Pressions per second. This will give con-
tinuous picture of what is going on on the
stage. Afterward the photographic slips
WIN 10 uevelopeo, replaced IN Tne tnacnlne,
a .it. ploJec'ins tens WIN pe SUD-
9 Thon a. hol .ue pno'ogffapn ieLis'
nograph will be adjusted, and by means
of calcium light the whole effect can be
ieProoucea at NE SIZE on ma "hite curtain
~ Iront Oh an au4lence. Inc original scene
M MIll appear 10 tner eyes as True as ne;
IIey WIZ see 1ne singers peIore tnein' ana
al tnelr tnoVenents auu gestures VIII ap-
pear as II tney were aceually on Cns stage.
1ne coiVrs wiz noI appeelI, puU otner"lse
you WIZ see ana near 1ne opera as you see IL
~ tne Odslno. Inc nlacnAue 49, al AacU'
merely mecnanIcal eye.
MI holson mas nov yee perIec'eo ma
Cnlne az "oFk: no uoes not e4peGG W nave
Speltec0 Que loI so C .inIe yet: ne nas an
e1Perllnental one Llgseo up t u MS WORKSHOP,
cUVereu ny "oouen poA. ~ regular
Photographic hachlne ltnpeIeo py an elec-
Wy motor. III tne voP y, Une po1 was ",
nole aoou1 tne SIZE Oh slyer ooiAar. me
~ was S.arte auu iooAeu through
tne orInce: WhaG saw was tne FORM OF
man ABOUT an men Ia SIZE po"lng ana rais,
lng nus nat Inc notlons were natlral ah9
etontlnnous ano no 70, oreak coqio De oeoec1eo
between them Inc picture saw was only
anegatiVe' pnotographeo on an enoIesS silp;
az tne greatest rate OF Speeu NJ gap coulu
10 notlceo between 1he ooWs. Aney came
aLong smoothly ana hatura4iy. bu1 "neti
.ne speed was decreased 10 twenty ana
VuHty pictures per eecolu lne ulhoIouce was