The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-01
LOCAL INVENTION
IS MAKING GOOD
Saturday Evening Post Comments
On New Money" System
Promoted Here.

a hickefless Him In the moving pic
iure business Is what the moyey men
have been after for years. aud. IL the
patent is what il preteuds 10 be. the
much-wauted innovation is to be se.
cured al the hands OF Honolulu inven.
tors.
The patent has been granted as far
as the department az Washington is
concerned aud the local men who are
responsible for the novel stunt have
almost convinced themselves they are
IN the way Of making great fortunes.
>. {. Cohen is one OF the main back
ers of the invention and the other day
he received very encouraging letter
from the inventor back East, referring
him TO an article IN the Saturday Even.
ing Post aneEt the new system of
stereoscope moving pictures, that is,
moving pictures which show the per.
forming characters up like real life
approaching the distance. middle.dis.
lance and thorough perspective. In so
conservative magazine as the Satur-
day Evening Post. the appearance of
the article naturally excites a great
deal Of enthusiasm among the local in
yestors.
No Affidavit With This.
81 am delighted at the mainland
newspaper news in regard to our in
Yention,' says Mr.. Cohen, "and J. am
satisfied with the report of our Wash
lngton agent, although the news is
nearly too good TO be true. Naturally
want to see the proposition make
good, but / am not gambling on the
outcome. ! have every faith i'm the
WIT and ingenuity of the men whose
brains have been applied to he inyen-
ton.
H. j. Pratt, chief draughtsman of the
Honolulu Iron Works, has Just returned
from Washington, where he has been
arranging the matters of the patent.
Charles WeatherwaX, the photographer,
identified with the Williams photogra.
phic parlOrs, has coOperated with the
inventor of the system. II is sys-
tenn that will revolutionze moving pic.
lures. 1t will do away with the least
possibility Of ilickering in the movies.
William Prucha. the inventor of
the moving picture innovation. il well
known in Honolulu.
The saturday. Evening Post of July
10 says:
IAN American inventor has CON
structed moving picture apparatus
that gives practically continuous
image in place of the present sixteen.
a-second intermittent flashing picture.
To the human eye the sixtecn-a.second
picture seems continuous, owing to the
phenomenon of retention of vision;
but, no matter how smoothly the pie
ture moves, there is some appreciation
by the eye that the picture is rapidly
flashing. If the pictures do not move
smoothly the eye suffers, though to
what degree is a matter of controversy.
This inventor conceived the idea of
making each of the sixteen a second
pictures dissolve into the one follow.
ing, Just as stercopticon pictures oftent
are made to dissolve into their success
sOrs.
with no ordinary moving-picture
apparatus, no picture is shown on the
screen one-quarter of the time. Six
teen pictures a second is the standard
practise; so each picture is shown
three sixty-fourths Of second. and
then for one sixty-fOurth of second
q shutter closes, cutting of the image
from the screen while the next sue
ceeding picture moves up into place.
The new dissOlving pictures, as they
might be called, are never shut of
from the screen. The film from which
they are projected moves continuously
at constant speed, but mirror picks
up the proper picture and throws it on
the screen.
"The mirror itself has a slight mo-
tion to counteract tho moving film and
keep the image on the screen still and
steady. This image remains on the
screen q fraction of a second, and then
a second mirror picks up the next pie
ture and throws it on the screen Willis
the first mirror proceeds to take il.
image off the screen, one thus dissolv.
ing into the next.
"The first mirror then hurries away
and picks up the next succeeding pic.
ture for its proper turn on the screen,
and so on. The dissolving from one
picture to another occurs so quickly
that it is not noticeable TO the eye,
but the effect is that of continuous.
picture, with no hicSer'
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