The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-02-18
MOVING PICTURE
MACHINE NOTES

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began, when asked recently to tell
something about the manner of prepara-
tion of the films of Hawaii, which
were shown on Saturday night at the
Opera House The individual pictures
are stationary on the screen for an APP
preeiable time, appreeiable that is in
a Photographic sense, where time is
measured in fractions of second. The
time the picture stands there is many
times longer than the time there is no
picture on the screen, while the next
one is being brought into place before
the projecting light. 1t is the dark
space between pictures that gives the
Kicker
'.On the machine / use / have in
troduced one thing, little idea of my
OWE, that reduces the flicker by putting
more on. That sounds paradoxieal, but
! it is brought about in this way. In
all machines there is shutter that
comes between the light and the screen
while the picture is being jerked down
into position. This shadow comes flick
ering on the screen, but in such rapid
succession that the eve can not dis
tinguish any distinct darkening, moth |
ing but the flicker. There is no other |
name for it. Now, l have added an
extra small shutter to my machine,
which cuts across the picture, giving
the faintest suspicion of shadow
while the picture stands motionless on
the screen. l have found that this lit
tie shadow eounteracts the big one and
gives a seeming steadiness to the pie
lures that can not be given otherwise.
''In taking the pictures l run my
film through my camera at rate to
take from sixteen to twenty-four pic
lures a second This little section of
the drill of the Company F boys here
was taken at the slow rate, sixteen I
to a second What you have there is ;
the work of half a seconds photo '
graphing. The action in that picture
is slow, what we would call quick ac- ;
ton would be an express train at full !
speed. or an automobile race. Alto
gether there are one hundred feet of
ilm in the Company F pictures, each
picture one inch long and three-quarters I
IN an inch wide. making sixteen hun
lred individual photographs to run
through the machine to show the short
hat picture is very interesting one,
hough, and it proved to be one of o.
he best sellers l took here for the -
edison company, with whom I was
onneeted on my first trip here. There ia
re not many places in the world where &C
-ou can find men trained as that com a.
any is. l suppose it is the natural eff
MUSICAL sense of time that gives such pc
to the drill. l know that it e
) not believed by a good many in the Il;
last who have seen the pictures that d
be drill is gone through without music 70
r a single word of command. CT
"The pictures I show of the launch m
ng of the scout boat Salem is, 1 think, We
n interesting one, especially now that &C
he navy is coming in for so much p pr
The Salem is the first of
series of fast scouts the government al
) building at the Salem yards and ne
be is the first of all our naval vessels =;
, be fitted with the American turbine m
ngines. | was at the banquet given CO
D celebrate the successful launching,
nd the Mayor of Salem made a speech
lie was ratified at the greatness Of H
ne occasion and in his confusion be- da
an by calling the vessel a 'scoot a.
oat He tried to correct himself, but 80
ne banqueters wouldn t have it and st
elled at him to let it go at that So fe
Il through the banquet, and / guess 70 -
ct, the scouts are called SCOTS in u.
alem. Sc
"That picture is one of many I have III
lat are private pictures, not taken for tn
lblie exhibition purposes. The pie alb
Tres of the National Cash Register ag
orks are private and one of those l Dl
I've, that of the crowd of employees wi
shing across the lawn at noon, was gr
ithdrawn by the owners, so I have ye
e only one there is. The Pasadena ns
'ral parade scenes are original as int
I'll. of
The pictures taken from the swing tht
at at Coney Island, Cincinnati, are =
vorites wherever they are shown. cal
Iat resort used to be called the Coney sta
and of the West, but the name is 100
ortened now to plain Coney Island S Sei
d it is noted as being the only is liti
ID in the world entirely surrounded foil
land.'' TIT
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tall
fHE PoLiCE SEEK HOLLAND. Mr.
ndrew Ho1laud tho EcI;nsa s,,r,v;ro.I bet