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We do not dissent from t\w proposition that Mr. Edison solved the problems of the motion-picture art with great ingenuity and skill, but the problems that he solved were in the camera apparatus, wherein his true claim to invention lies. He did not supply the " fundamentals of the fihn " that is used in the art as practiced to-day. The long, pliant, translucent, celluloid film with the sensitized surface was the invention and improvement of others. The pictures taken on such a film are pliotofjraphs. It is the particular character and arrangement of those pictures for which Mr. Edison is entitled to credit. But those pictures and their arrangement are nothing more than the result of the operation of his improved camera apparatus. The problem that was solved by their production and arrangement was a problem of the camera machinery. Appre