The herald., 1898-02-27

which they live. also the heavenly bodies
travelling their appointed course.
The Photographic novelty Is regarded
as one of the most brilliant of the year
With cinematograph NJ. Flammarion
took his stand one night in the center of
fine stretch of landscape and left the
moving earth to register the heavens on
the film of the instrument. In this way
Flammarion was able to do what it would
have been impossible to do with a cine
matograph used in the ordinary way.
In order to make the consecutive pic
lures that would enable him to portray
the scenes of the heavens at various
stages of the night, he took thousands of
proofs on the same film and made a num-
ber of proofs on different nights. and in
this way made a series of photographs
showing the gradual going down of the
sun, the coming out of the stars. the ris-
ing of the moon, ITS motions during the
night and the entire movements of the
ever-changing astronomical bodies from
darkness to dawn.
The flying stars that shot mysteriously
across the armament during the night were
all faithfully portrayed, and the whole
scene of the star-lit heavens transferred
to the film ending with the breaking of
day and the chasing away of the stars by
the rising sun in the morning.
The wonderful result of this patient
work of Flammarions is that time is an
initiated to the audience that watches the
cinematograph throwing the pictures on
the screen. In the space of a few minutes
the spectators can witness the phenomena
of an entire nights watching of the
heavens.
the theater there passes before the eyes
OF the audience the setting of the sun
and the gradual rising of the moon, the
filling OF the heavens with stars and so on
to the dawning of the day.
In order to hishten the Illusion the thea
ter is darkened during the exhibition, so
that nothing but the cinematograph at
work on the stage is visible, and, the sup
porting effect of the stationary walls being
absent. the audience gasps as the we'll
known heavenly bodies gyrate with dizzy
speed, and in defiance of all their accepted
rules for their movements.
Flammarion's wonderful experiments
did not end with the illusion described.
With the cinematograph he caused to be
shown In the theater a picture of the
earth as seen by the inhabitants of the
moon. If there be any. The manner in
winch this picture was obtained is very
, ingenious. Flammaron caused to be con-
structed huge globe, on which was mark
ed all the various seas and countries of
-'tne earth In their exact geographical po-
sitlons. Then, aiming his instrument at
thls globe. he caused IL to reyolye nv
means or mechanism designed for the pur-
pose.
Behind this globe Flammarion had
placed representation of the firmament
as 1t appears at night, and then Illuminated
the globe with strong light made to shine
on the globe in the manner that the SIM
does on the earth. Then the globe was
set revolving, and the cinematograph nbo-
tographed it in two minutes, showing the
entire revolution of world in that space
Of time.
The effect is wonderful The audience
sees the world revolve in a few minutes
exhibiting the great globe, with every sea
river and mountain faithfully portrayed
At the proper time night falls on the
world and the day dawns in due course
when the revolving globe comes back to the
light of the sun. Every detail is shown on
the screen with wonderful fidelity.
+ The interesting exhibition is attracting.
a great deal of attention from scientists
as well as from those who come to see n
because 1t is a novel and interesting show
1t is acknowledged to be one of the most
useful educators from a scientific point
J, pf view that has yet been invented. No bet
Ter means of illustrating the wonders of
The heavens and the method of the earth's
revolutions have yet been devised, and