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

of^cicnce 37 Cuban exhibitor. Horsley was now in the position where every dollar he controlled was invested in the factory. He had a studio, but no camera, and this was so hard to get in 1909 that the only one offered was an Urban, which was offered for $800 at Georg;e Kleine's office on Sixth Avenue, but it would take eight weeks to get it. Horsley decided that he must make a camera. He had never seen a moving-picture machine inside or outside, but he had a certain kind of intuition and ingenuity, and that night he figured out what had to happen inside of the camera in order to make pictures. Horsley started in to construct a camera, and in four weeks the machine was ready to operate. With this camera Horsley actually made four or five pictures that were sold, but he abandoned it and then built one that would make steadier pictures. With the improved machine Horsley made pictures good enough to merit the praise of Frank L. Dyer, Henry Marvin, and J. J. Kennedy; but after Horsley developed his negatives he found it was just as hard to buy printing machines as cameras. So Horsley got busy once more at his work bench and built a machine that would print the necessary copies. This machine was used a year, and Horsley says now it did the best work he has ever had done. It was abandoned only because later regular printing machines were available. But Horsley determined that his own machine was worth being patented. Though he applied for a patent April 21, 1909, he did not secure it till April 15, 1913. Now Horsley is making these printers for the general market, because they give absolute contact. Making his first release in 1908, Horsley was but a