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Muybridge, however, not only took [ 

 the first photographs of moving objects 

 but also first projected them on a 

 screen, thus leading directly to the 

 modern exhibitions of moving pictures. 

 This he did in lectures, beginning in 

 1880, and on a large scale at the Chi- 

 cago exposition of 1893, where a build- 

 ing was especially erected in which he 

 exhibited flocks of birds flying across a 

 screen, athletes wrestling and similar 

 moving pictures. In 1886 Muybridge 



consulted the inventor of the phono- 

 graph with a view to reproducing sim- 

 ultaneously visible actions and auditory 

 words. Neither method of reproduc- 

 tion was, however, at that time suffi- 

 ciently advanced, and. it was necessary 

 to wait until last year, when Mr. Edi- 

 son was able to synchronize in a satis- 

 factory manner the pictures and the 

 sounds. 



Although the reproduction of a play 

 by moving pictures and the phono- 



