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30 CARL Louis GREGORY [j. s. M. B. P.
was 2 3/4 inches wide and each frame was 2*/4 inches high. Three hundred and twenty feet of this wide film were used per minute, the perforations being made in the camera at the instant of taking. The fight lasted for twenty-five rounds of three minutes each, and more than seven miles of film were exposed. Four cameras were on the job so as to obtain a continuous record. Buckling of the film in the cameras was frequent although the film could be watched through a red glass peep-hole by the light of a small ruby lamp inside the camera box. The perforations in the large Biogra,ph film were used in printing, but not in projecting. The projector pulled the film down by means of a set of mutilated rubber rollers and the projectionist had to watch the frame continuously to prevent creeping of the frame line on the screen.
Oscar B. Depue, a member of this Society and partner of Burton Holmes, in 1897 purchased a machine in Paris from Leon Gaumont for taking 60 mm. wide film, then put up in one hundred foot lengths. It was a darkroom model, not a daylight proposition. Unwinding and rewinding were done inside the camera on aluminum spools. This machine he took to Italy and the first motion picture turned out on the machine was of St. Peter's Cathedral with the fountain playing in the foreground and a flock of goats passing by the machine. He then took other pictures of Rome and from there visited Venice, making pictures of the canal and Doges Palace and the waterfront along the canal with views of feeding the pigeons at St. Marks with the great cathedral in the background. From there he went to Milan for a scene of the Plaza in front of the Milan Cathedral; thence to Paris where pictures of the Place de la Concord with its interesting traffic and horse drawn busses, fountains, obelisks, statues, bicycles, wagons, trucks, and carriages were made. These negatives are still in his possession although the prints from them have long since been lost on account of our having changed from that size of picture to the standard size. This Gaumont wide film camera was used for five years by Mr. Depue and most of the negatives, many of which are of great historical value, are still in good condition, so that either full size or standard sized reduction prints can still be made from them.
During the first few years of the new century all of the sizes of wide film died out or changed to the Edison standard and, until the present vogue for sound pictures caused a revolution in the cinematographic world, the Edison standard with very slight modifica