The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
roRrY-s1x A SECOND.
-. kaleidoscope on Exhibition Here
and What It Can Do.

ana WlaI ~ Oau 10.
-. Kinetoscope, one of Thomas A
IONS latest and most wonderful inven-
- is now on exhibition at No. es Bull
-.-.st and it wiH.pay anyone to go in and
see it-
represeRtative of the Morning News
s-,,ped in yesterday to investigate its
--,rkings. The description Of it which has
sss1 given in the newspapers while they
nav convey some idea as to what it is
o,5 what it does. cannot fully do it justice,
Cor IL is truly wonderful.
The Kinetograph which was the first Of
.,e two inventions perfected by Mr.. Edi-
-,- hears the same relation to the Kline
,os,ope as does the recording diaphram Of
the monograph to the reproducing dia-
rsraem. As the human eye is capable Of
da+ecting and separating only about forty
7is-inct Impressions a second, If more
man that number are made to pass before
~ retina in. the same time, the result is
3 continuous impression. The kinetograph
take forty-six pictures a second. These
rictilres are taken from moving objects
more rapidly than those objects would
seern 10 the eye to be in motion, and they
are recorded finally on a long celluloid
film for reproduction by the kaleidoscope.
The kaleidoscope is in the shape of a large
cabinet similar TO that used for the phono-
graph. and if anything little larger. The
ione film contains over 1000 pictures taken
from some object in motion, and the appar-
aims within the cabinet, which is Oper-
sted by electricity, makes these pictures
mass before the eye at the rate OF forty-six
Der second. The result is the same as if
the actual object in motion before the
spectator only very greatly reduced in
size The film passes over a series of
rollers which holds 1t steady, while just
under the point at which they are seen by
the eve is an electric light. A dark wheel
with a small slit in it, revolving forty-six
times per second alternately cuts the light
on ana off, though its revolutions are so
rapid that the effect on the eye is contin-
uous.
The views on exhibition yesterday. were
interesting. In the first cabinet was the
picture of three blacksmiths at work. One
of them could be seen to go to the fire and
take out a piece of hot iron which the
others would hammer and shape up after
which they would pass around the bottle,
and all take a drink, repeating the per-
Torrance two or three times before the
film had ended. In another was Sandow,
the strong man. AS ne stood before the
kluELOEEdpu pictures VI ann III diNlOSA
every position and showing almost every
muscle in his body were taken, and as seen
in the kaleidoscope Sandow goes through
all these motions and shows the muscles
in his powerful body up to the same ad-
vantage In-another was 1900 pictures of a
skirt dancer, which pass so rapidly before
the eye that Annabelle seems to be doing
all the motions of a skirt dance on min
iature stage. The cock fight is perhaps
the most interesting of the views on exhi-
bition yesterday. The cock pit is there and
in il are two game birds, which go for
each ether for all they are worth, and
while the feathers are flying. the changes
in expression of the actual spectators of
the fight can be distinctly seen.
The instruments are owned by Messrs.
Harding & Martin, who are always on
hand and ready to explain their working.
They have a number of other subjects
which they will put on from day to day,
and among them are Layman, the facial
artist the prize fight, Buffalo bill's buck
ing broncho, Carmencita, the hotel scene,
the boxing cats and others equally as in
teresting The exhibition Will be open
from 10 a. m. until 1870 p. m.,, and during
the day ladies' can visit it without es-
corts, and those in charge will take pleas
ure in explaining the workings Of the
wonderful machine. They will be on exhi-
bition here about two weeks, and perhaps
longer if the patronage warrants it.