The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-29

instantaneous pictures and projecting
hem upon wall while under motion
had grown on Muybridge, and he re-
tired TO San Francisco To work out the
problem. He made number of glass
postives and fastened them to wheel
about thirteen feet in diameter. BY
using a. strong artificial light he pro-
Jected the pictures and the constantly
changing postures when rapidly turn
ed before the light gave the appear
ance of animation. He tlnkered with
this crude machine and its imperfect
results for nearly eight years. lie gave
II name and such name-"Zoo-
praXiscope' It was.
The Zoopraxiscope was given its |
Initial public exhibition in 1880 In San !
Francisco. II was used as an aid In a
lecture on animal locomotion. In 1881
Muybridge took his Zoopraxiscope to
Paris, and in 1882 exhibited 1t in Lon
don. In 1883 he showed the natives of
New York, Philadelphia and Boston
his invention.
1 Before going abroad Muybridge con-
combination Of Zoopraxiscope with the
phonograph, which was then in It's
swaddling clothes. In Paris Muy
bridge talked frequently with NJ. Marcy
of the Institute Of France. Later these
two conferees We're destined to per-
feet the work done by the English
man.
Marcy invented. or first utilized rath-
err continuous film. Edison went
! Marcy one better and by perforatlng
5 the ribbon geared it to a pin sprocket
wheel and settled the question Of reg
ister
Down to 1895 the minds Of all the
experimenters were bent on taking
G rather than exhibition of pictures. Mr.
e Edison broke away with peep show
o Idea, and in 1893 the first of these
T. l"shows" was conducted in the former
s famous gambling house of George Han.
5. kins i'm Chicago. This form of exhibi'
= ton aroused but little interest, anC
l. lduring the Worlds Fair of that yea
= animated photography" had littl
vogue.
IF In 1895 Lumiere launched his cine
Z, lmatrograph, projecting the picture
@. upon n screen. Edison followed wit
J. the VitaScope i'm 1896.
I'd Rivalry in the Field.
ly There followed in rapid order in
or vention after invention. and the pater
office was clogged with the device
fled by motion picture machine ger
IG fuses. BY 1898 machines to the numb'
of l09 had been invented. Every pri'
Invention was disputed and the parti'
in these differences took their claim
A. TO court and the lawyers were happ
of Then cold common sense began to
nm manifest, and number of the lit
m gants got together and organized Il
,rs Motion Picture Patents company,
Is which the patents of those joinii
uv twere assigned.
all In the meantime inventors in
We parts of the country had inaugural
rth an era of experimenting having {
in its main object the correcting of I
i've lpanicky and jumping effects that a
ing lcompanied the earlier screen probe
lFn lllOilSs Ht ilhllt encounter b'Ahf
int Bob Fitzslmmons and Jim Corbett
ND Carson City on March Il. 1897. W
ec- the first really ambitious effort on [
ING part of the pioneer film makers 10 RI
i'm ord by means of motion pictures
, of extraordinary events of the period. I
, a forward strides that have been ma
IN since that memorable ring battle m
tri- be judged. in a measure. by the
rn more satisfactory results obtained
lthe film manufacturers in reproduce
a similar event during the past We
,o, in which Jim Jeffries and Jacks
ha were the ring principals in the 81
-, Nevada city. Comparison of the
30 sets Of films was indeed n valuable {
ject lesson to those who We're folio
49,. ling the fortunes Of the motion pict
-, industry
In their efforts to meet the demai
of the amusement seeking public
euit film manufactures at first conten
hi%- themselves with swapping NOV
M trains, busy street scenes and aim
lous anything and everything that carr
S'l' with IL the suggestion Of eXcitem
10 and rapid motion. No picture
as complete without chase or scran
rnor of some sort and in the end the
BODY So, 90 tho motion nictire form
anu entertainment found itself banker
tuus for something more definite and
lie structive They We're unable to
that ,.t,una,a inst what form this sol
al Thing should take and ii was at
es 10 juncture that the resourceful film M
nera ers conceived the idea of giving {
eye patrons the photoplay, travel pict'
lph minus the whirlinr motion that
been featured in their earlier effc
Mr.. and scenes and incidents in eve
lusi- day affairs that warranted the O'
Iuy- that they might be of future hist
q in value The effect of this innova
!. on may be best realized by glance
Mr.. the motion picture entertainments
ostly the present.
egun Standard dramas, such as the I
He compelling Camille" Thackeray's
-four mortal Vanity Fair" specially dev
Inces scenes from the worlds greatest
nged torical events. modern comedies
that the heroic deeds of mythical he
thus on land and sea. are served witt
-, a a anllH