Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Story Magazine
Date:
Feb-Jul 1911
Publisher:
The Motion Picture Story Publishing Co.
Volume:
The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)
Leaf #:
000197
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 11, 2024
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The Wizard of Sound and Sight By W. H. Marc THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, in a little prosperous shipbuilding town. The real teacher of his life was his sympathetic, kind, intelligent mother, and he has always fully appreciated her instruction and comradeship, which made his early success in life possible. It was she who stood up for her boy when things went wrong at school, and she withdrew him from school that she might train him herself. At nine he had read, or heard read, Hume's History of England, the History of the Reformation and Gibbon's Rome, with all the books upon electricity he could get. At eleven he felt that he would like to earn his own living, and the mother understood her boy well enough not to stand in his way. Then followed the familiar experience of newspaper-selling on the train, and the little paper he printed containing the news that was too late for the evening papers. In 1887 Mr. Edison invented the Kinetoscope. The idea was suggested by a toy called the Zoetrope. The first difficulty was that there were no films on the market quick enough to take the required forty pictures a second, so the inventor had to make his own films. In fact, Mr. Edison has made so many things, and is so persistent in his efforts, it is no wonder that he has been designated "the Wizard of Sound and Sight," and recognized by many as America's greatest American.