Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1952)

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(Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc.) Edison and projector — about 1895 Thomas Edison experimenting with the motion picture projector in his library at West Orange, NJ. As The Columbia Encyclopedia notes: “In 1887 Edison patented the kinetoscope or motionpicture machine, having at the time no idea of its being used for anything except in ‘peep have been written before, elsewhere and here. They are brought up again now as background for the pictures of them which adorn this article. It was Dr. Lamb who provided these photographs. He searched out the negatives for them from among a collection which the Public Archives had acquired years ago from a well known Ottawa photographer of other days, Topley. As far as we know, they are the first pic 48 show’ machines. Others took up the device, and not until they had improved it did Edison again turn to it and help perfect it.” This machine was completed in 1896 and used publicly that ycar in a vaudeville house. tures of the Hollands printed in historical accounts. Although the pictures of the Hollands were identified in the records, Dr. Lamb sought further verification from Morris McDougall, Press Gallery representative of the Christian Science Monitor, who is in his Eighties and still hearty. McDougall lived next door to one of the Hollands for a dozen years. And that raises another important matter: The biography of the Hollands. The