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 #:
00047
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

DIAGRA3I ILLUSIONS. 29 (Fig. 26) was used, one member of which threw some scene on the screen in the ordinary way, while the other projected a beam of light through pictures on a trans- parent praxinoscope drum. On leaving the pictures this light was reflected from the specially angled central mirrors through a lens on to the screen, where it formed an image of the moving figure superposed on the scenery thrown by the other objective. This apparatus Fio. 26. was called \hQ Projection Praxinoscope, ov Praxinoscope Theatre. In 1889 M. Reynaud patented another form of instru- ment, which permitted the employment of much longer series of pictures. In the previous form the length of the series was limited by the size of the drum. It will be seen by Fig. 27 that the subsequent method permitted a long band to be wound from one reel to another, passing over a skeleton drum on its way. The principle of projection was the same as in the earlier instrument, the permanent scene being thrown by a lantern, L; while another source of light, L', projected a beam through the picture on to the central drum (of the usual