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Handbook for motion picture and stereopticon operators (1908)

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Record Details:

Title:
Handbook for motion picture and stereopticon operators
Date:
1908
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : The Knega Company, Inc.
Volume:
Handbook for motion picture and stereopticon operators
Leaf #:
00019
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2025
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INTRODUCTION". Chronophotography. " Motion Pictures," as commercially employed for the entertainment of large audiences, consists of an analytical process by which a photographic record is made of the scene it is desired to preserve, and a synthetical assembling of these separate photographs into a more or less exact counterfeit of the original movement. The favorite method of analysis is the making of pictures one above another on a long strip of sensitive film. The synthesis is accomplished by projecting these pictures one after another upon a screen by means of an optical lantern. The projection of the little pictures succeed each other so rapidly that the human eye is unable to separately distinguish them, and the effect is that of a simple picture containing animated subjects. Like all notable achievements in mechanisms, animated picture machines had a long line of predecessors, and the difficult problem of recording and reproducing motion did not yield without much preliminary fumbling. Hosts of eminent scientists and practical men have worked upon the problem, and the precipitate of knowledge from