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Discussion
Mr. Jenkins : I am very anxious that we do not get off on the wrong foot. I want you distinctly to understand that I am not industrially connected in any way in this high speed research. I am one of these prophets without honor in his own country, perhaps, but somebody always has to go ahead. At a luncheon down in W^ashington I sat alongside of General Squier, and you remember what a splendid little talk he gave us. Socially, we were talking about the question of invention, and he made a remark which has been in my mind, but undeveloped, as he put it, and that is that somebody has to think of the thing first — somebody has to be the pioneer, whether it happens to be an invention or some particular movement; always any new thing originates first in a single brain. That is why, he explained to me, he had split up his research laboratory into a number of smaller units. He found that he got action faster.
That is my apology, or my excuse, let me say — for coming before you again. I have reached the conviction that engineers in the motion picture business should feel, as I certainly do, that the time has come for us to remove the one limitation which stands in the way of advancement in the motion picture business, and that limitation is the word "intermittent" — and it applies to all sorts of our machines. When you take ''^intermittent" from our vocabulary, so far as motion pictures are concerned, we can put the picture series on boards, we can put pictures on almost any old thing, because immediately weight and speed are eliminated ; that is, weight and speed have no limit practically.
So, please, if you will allow me, that is my excuse for coming to you today. If we can have speed and weight taken out as the limiting factors which stand in the way, I believe that progress can be made faster. When the electric motor came along it would have been just as easy to have made a reciprocating electric motor as a rotary motor, but we would not have made the progress today that we have made. So that is my excuse for standing here and telling you that so far as Mr. Jenkins is concerned, intermittents are taboo from now on.
We have to make a start some time, a beginning, and the way to begin is to commence. Now, if that is so, then any progress, or any demonstration that I may make, simply is in the nature of an invitation to you gentlemen to "come on up." I feel lonesome too far out ahead. Come on up close, and let's tackle the problem together, and as one of the ways of doing it, that is, to show what can be done, I have brought down some high-speed-phenomena-pictures, high speed in the sense that continuous motion has no limit; we can go as far as we like. These I will show you presently.
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