El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-10
Moving Picture Shows Appeal
To All Classes and All Ages
In City Country the Picture Show Is the same for Rich
Poor, Learned and Ignorant

that controls the Illm patents q clEcu-A-
stance that now brings the inventor
weekly income Of about $1,000
Two Factions at War.
The disputes over the patents per
tCrb the moving picture business IN TINS
country to this day, dividing the entire
business into two factions, the ll-
Censed" and the independent The
general dispute is not unlike that OF the
automobile manufacturers during the
life Of the famous Selden patent Inc
owners of many Of the original Ameri-
can moving picture patents, after 1lgnt-
ing each other 1Or several years joined
forces and pooled their interests by or
gaming the Motion Picture Patents
company, to which all the patents were
assigned Those on the outside conLn-
ued to fight by attacking the validity
Of the patents But that is another
Leland Stanford, sometime governor
and senator Of California 40 years ago
made q wager with friend as to yhetn-
er a running horse ever has al -FOUR
feet off the ground at the same time
Muybridge was a photographer in san
Fra nciscO then engaged In making a
Photographic survey or the STATE ne
was called In to settle the wager, ana
Eis expenses were guaranteed by sian
ford. Muybridge became an enthusiast
and resolved to determine the cnarac-
ter of animal motion, a problem requlr-
ing a quicker eye than is possessed BY
human beings
Led to Motion Pictures.
His experiments were begun at the
race track at Sacramento In 16tZ- he
set a number Of cameras around the
track at equal distances sometimes
using more than two dozen Small
strings were attached TO the shutters
These strings were broken by the run
ming horse and the photographs taken
La ter an electrical device was en-
Lloyed to open and close the shutters.
In his experiments Maybridge used only
wet plates, employing total or more
than half a million plates HIS was
task that might wei have staggered q
Hercules. He proved that the running
horse never has all It's feet of the
ground at any time But that was only
the beginning.
MUybridEe made glass pOsitives from
the negatives Of series of running
horse phOtogra phs, mounted them on a
wheel no less than 8 feet IN diameter
and employing magic lantern pro-
Jected them onto screen at varying
rates of speed. from - to 80 a second
This machine is called a ~zOOpraXicope-
He had based II upon the principle OF
the 'zoetrope, toy popular In the
early part Of the nineteenth century II
was a revolving, open pastebOard cyl
1nder with many lateral Sits through
which was pulled strip on Wnlcn
we're drawn imaginary figures Of con-
stantlV changing pastures BY reason
Of the persistence Of vision, the zoe
trOpe had produced crude moving pic
lures, but such as were subsequently
proved 10 De euLlrelE raise
Muybridge first publicly exhibited
his 'zOopraXiscope" In san Francisco
in 1850 in a lecture on animal lOcOmO-
tion. so that the California city may
claim to have been the cradle Of the
moving picture art He repeated the
lecture and the exhibition in Paris in
1881. in London in 1882, and in New
York. Boston and Philadelphia in 1888
While in Paris in 1881 he met and
talked with J. Marcy Of the Institute OF
France. He had already conferred with
Edison about the possibility Of com bin
ing the zOopraXiscOpe with the newly
invented phOnOg raph-a problem that
is still far from a satisfactory solution
although successful talking pictures
are a possibility Of the future. OF his
own experiments and Of these two con-
versations with Marcy and Edison was
born the moving picture apparatus Of
today.
The invention Of the projecting ma
chine in 1885 made the moving picture
a practicable thing and in 1896 the exhi-
bitiOn Of pictures was begun on com
mercial scale The pictures were crude
and the exhibitors were for a long time
content to make pictures of anything
that moved, depending upon the mere
wonder Of a motion in a picture for
their popularity.
Tomorrow-DevelOpm OF Moving
Pictures.