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

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 #:
000533
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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330 C!)e Cfieatre CHAPTER XVI In 1865 Mr. Charles B. Kleine established himself in the City of New York as a manufacturing optician whose main business was the making of microscopes. Shortly after the Civil War the old-fashioned oil lamp stereopticon became more or less popular, and Mr. Kleine found himself dabbling in stereopticon work as a side issue. It remained a side issue until he thought of adapting the calcium light to the oil lamp stereopticon. By this process Mr. Kleine revolutionized stereopticon work and opened a great field for lectures, which has been popular ever since, and elevated it from a home-talent affair into a genuine profession. With the advent of moving pictures a wider scope of operation was opened for this concern, and Mr. Kleine was one of the first to work out the various problems in optics as applied to film projection. Projection work was in a very crude and unprofessional form until Mr. Kleine came forth with the combination dissolving stereopticon as applied to the moving picture machine, and from that time on projection has risen to a much higher plane. Last year, at the age of 75, Mr. Kleine retired, and