Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography (1899)

Record Details:

Title:
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography
Date:
1899
Publisher:
London Optician & Photographic Trades Review
Volume:
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography
Leaf #:
00026
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Robarts - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
University of Toronto
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
52
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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8 LIVING PICTURES. this book, and finds its proper place in a stereoscopic treatise. It is indeed strange that a toy which in the earlier years of the present generation could be bought six on a halfpenny card should have cost seven-and-sixpence at the date of its inception, and should have tempted the Royal Institution to enter commercial life; but stranger still is the thought of that shilling, carelessly spun seventy years ago, being the first step in the long series of persistent vision apparatus whose latest develop- ments achieve results wonderful indeed when not under- stood, more wonderful still when a just comprehension is formed of the numberless details which are necessary to the effective working of a living picture. However, to return to the year 1826, the date of the publication of the Thaumatrope's description. One stage in this history is here complete; Fitton's instrument set men thinking, and only six years elapsed before the first appliance was introduced for obtaining the illusion of motion.