The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-12
MOVIES FIRST
SHOWN IN 1896
original Film Was Brought to New
York From London

To-day there is hardly IA hamlet. no
matter how remote, that does not
boast of a motion picture show AT
least once a week. where. for a. small.
round 107cent piece. man. woman or
child can go and enjoy two or three
hours of lifelike views of the world,
it's places, its people, its happenings.
and. too, have interviewer in that
same space sidelights ON the human
side Of life an illustrated tale of love,
comedy, tragedy.
Up 20 sixty years ago nothing but
manual CONTINGENCIES were employed
IN realizing the actual motion pictures
they were but toys--but the an
pcarance of the photograph showed
;hc possibility Of reproducing AN OBJ
feet in motion. The application of
such an invention To stage was not
even dreamed of at this time A. good
many years after, as some theater-
Eucrs may recall, i'm the stirring play,
Winchester" in which moving
platform and dying scenery aided the
stccds to add dash To the climax act,
crude moving pictures were substi-
stuffed.
First in America.
Crude though they were. when this
substitution first appeared in New
York its appearance marked the first
presentation of moving pictures in
America. 1t may be added that in
vcntive genius did not inspire the
substitution, il was due wholly tu old,
old, law that q. Henry tells about.
the law of supply and demand. For
the strcnuosity of being heroine and
william under the stage manager and
playwright got their heads together
and after the supply had been cxhaus-
ted with the demand running good
and The Road to Winchester was
Photographed in quiet spot in New
Jersey. The next night it was thrown
upon "A screen. A New York audience
approved and ever since the silent
Grama has been steadily asserting
Itself.
The first real moving pictures as we
look upon them today were shown in
the United States by Il. +. Keith. He
introduced America To them as he has
thousands of others of the best things
ON or otf the stage. Mr. Keith had
seen them at the Empire thcatcr. Lon
uun, in 1896. He resolved to BRING
them here. Fortunately, he happened
20 meet the man who had secured the
right To show the pictures in this
country. He Immediately engaged this
man and forwarded him post haste
on the first steamer To New York with
the outfit. This machine was called
Lumiere Cinematographe. So called
because the machine was manufactur-
ed i'm Lumiere, Lyons France. where
Mr., Keith purchased the first machine
sold TO IN outsider.
milk White Flag
The pictures We're shown in the
Union Square theater, New York, in
May, 1896. for the first time. Later
in this same month Edisons Nitascope.
80 named because ii showed lilc-sizcd
pictures in motion on n screen, was
placed in keith's thcatcr, Eos,-r This
WAS the first movies" to he so>> in
Boston The first film shown was en-
titled, N Milk-Whte Flag"
The pictures made an nstaneous
hit The people liked To see the storm
waves beat high on a rOck-bolnd
coast. they loved 10 gaze upon the
clown as he trippcd over himself ana
rolled down a hill, upsctting the col
"rcd lady with "A clothes basket on
her head. When they were out oi
the thcater they rubbed their eyes
as if doubling their sense Of thought,
and told their friends. Moving pic
lures was success from then ON. lae
public saw the pictures conquered.
The following year brought inc
Telegraph. a huge Improvement on the
first two types. This showed the En-
prc State express running at Sixty
niles an hour. President Mckinney
leaving his home in Canton, ono, ana
many other interesting, amusing ana
instructive features. b. f. Keith con-
tinucs To show moving pictures OF the
highest order and today exhibits INNS
of the world famed Pathc Weekly. |
showing pictures of current events Oh
International interest.
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