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MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
of moving images was suggested to him by a toy, the Zoopraxoscope, or Wheel of Life. It was determined to revolutionize the whole nature of the proceedings, by instituting a series of impressions fixed to the outer edges of a swiftly rotating disk supplied with a number of pegs, so as to project from under each picture on the rim. A Geissler tube was placed, connected with an induction coil, which, operated by the pegs, lighted up the tube at the precise moment when the picture crossed its range of vision."
Curiously enough, during all of this period, when men like Marey, Edison, Evans, Demeny, Donisthorpe, Jenkins, Anchuetz, and many others were working upon the problem of photographing pictures in rapid succession, very little attention was paid to the problem of projection, because their ideas were centered upon the use of the pictures for individual observers in coin operated slot machines. Although a number of the patent specifications include the use of the camera mechanism, or a similar mechanism for purposes of projection, very little actual work seems to have been done toward solving the problem of presenting motion pictures to a multiple audience. Numerous authentic examples of motion pictures taken by various inventors at this period are in existence today, but it is probable that the first public exhibition to an assembly of people was given by C. Francis Jenkins on June 6th, 1894, in his father's shop at Richmond, Indiana. Jenkins was at that time a stenographer in the treasury department at Washington, D. C, and, in his spare time had been experimenting in the making of motion pictures.
Jenkins writes of his first inception of interest in the subject as follows:
"In 1885, while standing one day on a high prominence in the Cascade Mountains, I watched the reflection of sunlight from the axes of some working men clearing the right of way for a railroad in the valley below. The reflection from two or three hundred axes produced a peculiar scintillating and beautiful effect. From that moment I date all of my efforts to achieve what finally resulted in the perfection of the chronophotographic apparatus I have built and used.
"My experimentation was dependent upon what could be spared out of a small salary. This is my excuse for the delay in completing a commercial machine after the first conception of the
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