Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Obtaining and Exhibiting Animated Photographs.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 13th May, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Obtaining and
Exhibiting Animated Photographs.
I, RAOUL GRIMOIN SANSON, of 15, Avenue de Lamotte Picquet, Paris, France,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to photographic
apparatus and my invention consists in an apparatus whereby animated pano-
ramic views may be "taken' of photographed in such a manner that when
developed in any ordinary suitable way and then preferably also coloured, the
said views if changed in rapid succession and projected on to a circularly disposed
screen will show an animated view of the entire panorama covered by the lenses
1 prefer to employ say twelve photographic apparatus each having an object
glass or lense and a suitable apparatus for moving the film and the shutter
The said apparatus are disposed cncularly and are worked simultaneously by
suitable mechanism and in practice 1 print the photographs from the negatives
in any ordinary way and place them in the apparatus which I put in the centre
of a suitable circular building having a screen all around its inner side and I
project the panoramic views on to said screens
The photographs are preferably coloured so that the appearance of the views
on the screens will be more lifelike
If desired the spectators may be situated at some height over the apparatus so
that the view will be like that which would be obtained from a balloon
Ilated this 10th day of June 1898
RAOUL GRIMOIN, SANSON.
By his Agents, Horn, Son & Co,
151, Strand (next to Somerset House), London.
Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Obtaining and
Exhibiting Animated Photographs.
I, RAOUL GRIMOIN SANSON, of 15, Avenue de Lamotte-Picquet, Paris, France,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same 18 to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to photographic
apparatus and my invention consists in an apparatus whereby animated pano-

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ramic views may be "taken" or photographed in such a manner that when
developed in any ordinary suitable way & then preferably also coloured the said
views if changed in rapid succession and projected on to a circularly disposed
screen will show an animated view of the entire panorama covered by the lenses
My improved apparatus consists of say twelve photographie apparatus fixed
firmly and disposed circularly and equidistant and so arranged that the twelve
lenses take in
the whole panoramic view each of the twelve photographic
apparatus is arranged and provided with any well known mechanism or means
to enable a rapid series of photographs to be taken and the mechanism of the
said twelve photographic apparatus is geared or connected in such a manner
that the fixtures taken by said photographic apparatus are synchronical so that
as a result, a rapid series of panoramic views are taken by the twelve photographic
apparatus.
The pictures or negatives are taken on any suitable sensitized bands or material
and are developed and the positives prepared all in any usual manner.
These pictures are then arranged in the apparatus and by means of a more or
less powerful light arranged centially behind them the pictures are projected in
rapid succession and synchronically on to a circularly arranged screen or the like
The original photographic negatives may for example be taken from a balloon
travelling through the air so that the views thrown on to the screen repiesent
constantly changing panoramic views which, especially if coloured will be very
effective and pleasing to look upon as well as in many instances useful
topographically or otherwise
In the accompanying drawings Figs 1 & 2 show in sectional, in plan view
and sectional de elevation respectively a building A having a circular screen B
my improved apparatus C consisting of twelve properly arranged photographie
apparatus as hereinbefore described-being aanged centrally within the screen.
Fig. 3, shows a sectional side elevation of a building in which the panoramic
views are thrown on the screen, a central platform D, for the public, being shown.
Fig. 4 18 a sectional plan view on a smaller scale of said building the central
platform and means of entrance & exit being also shown and
Fig. 5 is an external view of said building.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18-
1 An improved photographic apparatus for "taking" panoramic views and
consisting of a suitable number of ordinary photographic apparatus arranged
circularly and provided with mechanism or means so that a picture on the sensitised
surface in all such ordinary photographic apparatus will be taken synchrono-
logically substantially as set forth
2. An improved photographic apparatus for "taking'
series of panoramic views substantially as described
"2
a more or less rapid
3. A photographic apparatus for obtaining panoramic views or pictures and
for throwing said views or pictures on to a screen.
Dated this 10th day of March 1000
GRIMOIN-SANSON.
RAOUL
By his Agents. Horn, Son & Co,
Somerset Chambers, 151, Strand, London