K1M1 !! !! il i:i - 



-trip* about ar. i half wide. 



All kmetoacopio picture* are now taken on 



Ana. ami their manufacture has bscosjas a> 

 graphic fllmtMU 



u' r.' !.'. - . do ' . MM * ' 



lie pictures. 



.: 



film tin of picture*, 



passes the f rame. behiodthe 



.,*.-. ,.r... '- v, ,. . , 



'.-,.' 



..... 



',..--. 



- a* the protection of the film of picture* from 



c*, melt: the great heat et* n the 



red on a fbcos of the powerful are light. The problem was 



rr figure solved bf placing an sssfltioiiiaf.ni ' 



a "M-i. \. \ t!i -j . . l .'.'. (.: f. '',. > 



.lot an 

 lie stops. 



,r .-.. ' >l , :.'.>..-.. 



of scenes wa. - 



110 method was 

 larged 

 .1 

 are* and make the record 



f photographic apparatus ha 

 Miiableof taking v, 







VI, 



record or series} of pictures on t 



^K ill.,,., th It-ing afterward finished like 



photographs, and often colored by hand. 



i is not, however, in any sense an 



no sooner 



IPH the machinsj MsVkalsjd an- 1 declared apopo* 



..cr*. than a Miiall arm* 'ors set to 



visa roeani for exhibit m. ,-s in 



enlarged form on a screen. One of the first to 



ibited on Broadway, 

 l *i". The kinetosoopic pictures 

 I'lUMrd through tin- f 



obtained wen- t so shaky 



;rred effect 



he eidoloscope came 





 theater. Th- films for tin- n. 



is, ami an- woiin.l on two spools, 



fag made for a regular and even speed of the 



traveling film. yarded as a great success 



produced a satisfactory repro- 



.i.lnllof ; lard, 



an- 1 Park, in tin- summer of 1806. 

 .in.- that h/vs rome promin. 



ug enlarged kineto- 



he name chosen n. -rally, the 



fllated to have been about $20,000. AS re- 



present form. In the first model a shutter was 

 used, a-H in tin- kinetasoo|* o> f<>un<l that 



-hutt.-r hifl mm h to do with pro- 

 Herts observed in the enlarged 

 reproductions. The shutter was therefore altan* 

 1. and an arrangement of an arc light and 

 lenses was pro\ 



itascope as perfected has a small camera lens 



v on a screen. Just 



- i* a rectangular frame of the sias 



tires to be reproduced, serving to confine 



the 

 proper lin prepared film is pasted direct Iv 



ilong with the required 46 stops a 

 1 is a large lens, and immcdiatdv 



power. An electric motor is employed to carry the 



frau. r ...r 



I 







of the 

 th, ,nrt u 1 * 



nt u turned on to *art 

 the film in motion the same movement withdraw* 



.,... ' . .. ...... 



l..it, plarr mil,., f.-uv l,.r.- .t bMl n. 



The'bSiraph'u a machine similar to the vita- 



ting scenes. An expre** train running at 

 an hour, fire engines on their * 



hmth. 



imilar rrit^ 



rapid action have been succewfully introduced, and 

 have proved very pofHilar. The i Inssaafngispli it 

 another similar mat 



-. 1807, as being the medium nsed to 

 displn malic pictures illustrating a prise 



.- was the longest series of pi- 

 ontinuon 



an.l a ha renult* we'rr fairh 



v. though u wa* found 

 txhil.i about half 



afford opportunity to the 

 eyes, which wrr< 

 bration - f tin vjpwson 

 is present with a 



t. 



: . . ; 



he result of the 



(II l |*ll-M ll I t'VI till- ICX-tll HI UiV 



. httle wear in these holes 

 films to shake in proportion to the 

 play or lost motion in the holes, and 



Me minute vibrations set up in stop- 

 irni .tuning the travel of the films 46 times 



a M I Bd T' , -. / - - 



comes aftrr a little time, when 



lea in the edge* of the films become a little 



worn *! travel 



carrying wheels. A vei 



inn. .tint f play 



-hake is exaggerated on the i 



One of the most singular result* producible with 



:.: .-..-.-.. '- .- ' 

 in reversed order from that in which they were 

 taken. In oth. he films bearing the pic- 



tures are run backward through the vitascope or 

 i machine. Take, for instance, a 

 f a man eating a plate of 

 tables, gravy, etc. whan it is t 

 the observer sees a man seat himself at a 



an.1 pi, k 



a plate empty but for a few chicken bones. He be- 

 gins with a fork to extract portions of meat from 

 MS mouth, ami with 



these up on the chicken bones. In the same way 

 the vegetables, etc,, are removed from his month 



into 



to the plate, until a well-filled dish 



k>M MM.li wttk hIL^ wktnlt Ib* 



nun, covered wiin r nice en gini v v wnicn ne 

 to a special dish by the aid of a large 



jravy jumps from the nUt. in the 

 astonishing manner. A varietv of other scenes are 



T peculiar ai. : 



reversing pcoetss, as horses running backward with 

 a fire engine or a reversal of the process of a barber 



is an 



similar to the 



