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There was one objection to this camera—the size of the picture. The next advance was a camera constructed for him by A. Lege and Co., of Hatton Garden, London, and delivered in the summer of 1889. This used tooth sprockets and was designed to run perforated film, slightly less than 2/2 inches wide. Twelve pictures a second could be taken with this camera, and its first experiment was a scene in the King’s Road, Chelsea, early in 1890.
1887 —— The First Cine Camera
In association with Mortimer Evans, an engineer, my father obtained a patent for a ‘camera for taking pictures at a rapid rate.’ This was on June 21, 1889, so that it was on this date that (officially) the first cinematograph camera was born. Few people were very excited about this invention. In fact not until November 15, 1889, when ‘The Opitical Magic Lantern Journal’’ gave the news to the world, did anybody realize the possibilities of the invention. Although the daily and weekly newspapers commented on the article, the whole idea was so fantastic and far-fetched that sneers, rather than cheers, welcomed the invention. Let me give you a short extract from that article of only 43 years ago.
lt was headed ’A Startling Optical Novelty-Photoramic and Phon-Photoramic Effects.’ “‘Imagine the sensation,”’ the article said, ‘‘that would be produced, if the whole of the recent Lord Mayor’s Show were to be presented upon a screen exactly as seen by a person stationed at one particular point looking across the street. The house on the opposite side would remain stationary and the procession would pass along, each minute movement, as it actually took place at this given point, being represented.
“The name of Friese-Green, the eminent photographer of Brook Street, W., will become familiar throughout the land in connection with an invention by which all these effects can be produced. He has invented a peculiar kind of camera—to outward appearances not unlike an American organette, handle and ail—about one foot square. The instrument is pointed at a particular moving object and, by turning the handle, several
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