Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13

ing motion pictures exclusively could almost be
counted on your fingers
Invention Of motion pictures can partially be
attributed to California incident. Two race
horne men argued as to whether horse while
running had more than two feet the ground
at any time. To prove this, "a threads were
stretched across the track and the end Of each
attached to q separate camera. horse ran
down the stretch breaking each thread separately
and exposing ~ Photographic plates. One of the
men took copies Of the photographs to Europe
where they caused numerous experiments. Final
~ the task Of making motion pictures was given
up because no flexible substitute for glass could
b found
Years later . New Jersey minister. trying to
discover Q way of making nonbreakable stereop-
tioDn slides for use in his Sunday school. made
the discovery that ceuloid was suitable Tne
susstitute was Immediately employed by photo.
graph supply manufacturer. which enabled
THOMAS Edison to perfect his kinetoscope or
lrAaphole machine, first shown at Columbian e4-
fjSliuon Chicago. in 1893. Forty feet OF rioooh
aim with continuity of action rolled past the lens
m hole In cabinet with an intermittent move
ment that retained each picture before the peep
hole twice a. long 1t required to move the pic
iture to this spot Back Of the film was an eiec,
Sfric light and directly In front OF the lens smai
hole through which the people could peep for the
sum OF Eve cents. The film had sprocket hoies
in the margin one side and corresponding
This device served an idea Tor Robert W.
paul OF London. the firm OF Lumiere & Sons OF
Paris and man named Grey of New York city
simultaneously these men thought OF attaching
the aim to q stereopticon lamp and projecting the
picture on to q screen. and began working out
machines which would do this properly. Inc
0rat projected motion picture In America was
= that of Creys eidoloscope in basement store
room in New York city in 1895. Paul perfected
! mia projecting machine In March. 1896. anu
NLumiere In 1897. At later date, William Ken
nedy Laury Dixon. formerly with Paul, now en-
iployed by Thomas Edison. perfected the Edison
ikiuetoscope. This device was combination OF
the .peep-hole" invention with sprockets on each
side OF the aim introduced by Lumiere. more
accurnte intermittent movement for the film car
riage and a powerful lamp perfected by Thomas
Edison. Other machines appeared in America
about the same time. but later patent rights were
All merged with that of the Edison. The projec-
,tion machines we're crude and 1t has required
much time and mechanical ingenuity to bring
them to the state OF perfection.
With machines made a still greater problem
Of securing new interesting subjects confronted
the showmen who took up the novelty. There
being no completed motion pictures for sale, IL
was necessary for each exhibitor to make all his
own subjects. No one thought Of making pic
tures of plays. Instead they caught finishes OF
races scenes In prize fights. and topical events
of q sensational nature.
About this time Kansas City operator OF these
machines learning OF the projecting machine
made plans for a concession at the Buffalo Pan
American exposition. which consisted OF rail
way Illusion made possible by rocking the coach
N while pictures projected on a screen In
one end OF the car. Later this was exhibited
throughout the country in specially constructed
railroad coach and the name "Eales Tour of the
World" became famous.
The greatest step Of the industry following
the perfection Of projectors. films and cameras
vas made simultaneously by Miles Brothers o
New York and Eugene Kleine of Chicago. They
established film markets or exchanges, where
negatives were bought and prints sold or rented
= This system served to solve the problem OF dis
ttributon, by renting films to exhibitors for thi:
method il successfully used today throughout the
world.
The exchange system assured permanent film