The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

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Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
00056
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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The Theatre of Science CHAPTER I Probably the crude pioneer production of motion photography with optical illusion was the childhood picture device of half a century ago, called "Zoetrope," or "Wheel of Life." In 1876 "Praxinoscope," an invention of the Frenchman Reynard, was really based upon the "Zoetrope" apparatus, but a cloth screen was used on the stage and a limelight lantern was a part of the equipment. Both of these primitive productions are entitled to be recorded here because of their influence with later inventors, each of whom it seems added something new and constructive up to the time virhen the Lumiere Cinematograph came forth at Keith's Union Square Theatre, in July, 1896, when the real history of moving pictures began to write itself. Eadward Muybridge in 1871-72, at the suggestion of Governor Leland Stanford, made countless negatives of the famous trotter, "Occident," on the governor's race track in Oakland, Cal. "Occident" was the pride of the governor's heart, and he had Muybridge photograph the mare in every conceivable form. The story is that Muybridge placed 20 cameras along the track