SECTION D 



COMMUNITY ENTERTAINMENT 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



MOVING PICTURES 



How are moving pictures made and how are 

 they thrown on the screen ? 



No application of science during the last ten years has 

 had such a rapid development and become used by so many 

 people as the moving pictures. They are now found in 

 all parts of the country, and almost every town has one or 

 more moving-picture theaters. It has become in a very 

 real way the people's theater. It is estimated that there are 

 fifteen thousand moving-picture theaters in the United 

 States, besides many halls where moving pictures have been 

 established, and that these have an average daily attendance 

 of fourteen million people who spend each day for admission 

 fees over one million dollars. There are shown daily in 

 all the moving pictures a total of about eighteen thousand 

 miles of films, almost enough to encircle the earth. 



Early attempts. Let us first notice some of the early 

 attempts to make moving pictures, and the progress that 

 has been made in recent years. In 1872 Edward Muybridge, 

 a resident of San Francisco, conceived a plan of taking a 

 series of pictures in rapid succession. His plan required 

 the use of a large number of cameras that were set up side by 

 side. About ten years later, Dr. Marey in France made 



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