The evening times., 1898-11-28
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He was assisted in ali his researches by
the Academy of Sciences. and made quite
Il success OF it, These 1870 men are the
persons who have done more scientifically
for the development of the moving pic
tuTes than any other people in the world,
in my opinion.
MY experiments date back TO 1890, and
] have been completely absorbed by the
idea of pcrfecting the machine ever since.
Il have constructed hundreds OF ma
chimes: in fact thousands of ideas have
been developed before l reached the point
where / could rest and then make anoth-
er attempt L" mount the fiimsy- ladder of
4 scientific renown.
The first private exhibition Of the ma
chine was given to-sever:Il friends in 1894.
and The first public exhibition was given
during the Cotton States Exhibition, at
Atlanta. Ca. in 1885 From there ! went
te Philadelphia. and gave exhibition
before the Franklin Institute, where l
made my bid for rle metal which ] re-
| ceived two weeks ago.
Il have not gone into this study for the
/ financial benefit ] may receive. but for
/ the benefit il may be 10 science. The
method. as is now quite generally known,
| consists OF an analytical process by which
a multiphasal. Photographic, picture strip
! is made and a syRthetical process by
which these discrete pictures are imper-
/ ceptibly blended into one continuous pic
iure by an eyer-cbansing expression. The
above sentence contains all the descrip-
tion there Is in moving pictures today.
But we can use that process in many
ways and can get many more things with
its help than we would be able TO obtain
otherwise.
"one Of the results that is
gained by the use of the
moving picture is the magnitica-
ton of motion. To the layman that has
little significance. but TO the scientist it
means much For instance. by the use
OF a set % coiored screens and a camera
filled with the film | can take picture
of a plant from the time the seed is
placed in the ground until the plant has
grown up and died Of old age.
Photographing Plants.
Suppose we take a cornstalk, for sake
! of illustration Now ] set my machine
or any of the moving picture machines,
| on the earth focused on the spot where
the seed is planted Every hour I take a
picture In a short time the shoot of the
plant appears then il branches out, ears
! of corn become visible then the tassel.
| The stalk has reached maturity by this
! time and begins to turn yellow, first the
/ AdSSes assumes Il SoIbtli huts AlSil Aiit
entire plant and finally il falls to the
ground wIthered and OF no use.
1T would take many days of patient
| labor to get this entire process trans
| ferred from nature TO the film, and have
il fixed TO remain there, but just see what
would be gained by all that work. In
three minutes / can reproduce on a can
vass screen all the work that it has TAX
en- nature months to accomplish.
II can show 10 the scientific world any
portion of the plant life they want; can
stop the machine and display the most
minute detail; can keep il as long as
| like. Ii is not a creature of fancy, thing
that is here today, gone tomorrow. Ii will
always be here; you can always see it,
1 and see il as you never would see it, even
/ if YOU would watch and watch, day after
| day; the camera catches and holds that
which is invisible TO the human eye in
| nature and reproduces 1t so that il can
be seen and accordingly appreciated.
do not lose sight of the fact that all
| this is not like the ordinary photograph,
but is reproduced in color, as nature
| made it. and the process of changing col
or can be shown. These pictures can bS
| taken every day, every hour, every min
ute, or a thousand can be taken in min
| ute just as the operator OF the machine
sees fit.
THAT is the magnification of motion
There are other ways in which magni-
| fed motion can Jbe used. Here is a roll
/ of films with pictures of my lips In the
act of saying the Lords Prayer. Not long
| ago a party of deaf mutes were assem-
4 bled in a room and this set of pictures
was put In the machine. They knew in a
| second what IL was and read from the
1 lips as shown on the canvass what was
| being said. To test their ability to d s.
| tinguish what was said by the motion of
| the lips / ran the same film through the
| machine backward and the look of as
| tonishment on their faces was amusing
| to behold.
Now, think what an advantage 1t
| would be for the many deaf mutes in this
| and other countries to be able to hear
some noted man deliver a lecture. All
4 the platform orator has to do is to talk
4 into the cameras and hundreds of copies