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REPORT OF THE HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE*
The work of the Historical Committee has progressed with good results. Besides many new accessions received for the collection at the Los Angeles Museum and the reconditioning of apparatus received, a number of biographies and autobiographies are in the course of preparation.
These biographies will describe the experiences of the more notable pioneers in their achievement of the motion picture. Their successes and failures in groping toward the 'living picture" will be set down in an honest record of their accomplishments. So much has been written about the activities of the pioneers of the cinematograph from hearsay and memory, without foundation of fact, that it was thought desirable to create accurate accounts of the men who made the motion picture a possibility. The phenomenal growth of the art as well as the commercial aspects of the motion picture had done much to keep alive a great number of stories and traditions that credited the invention of many cinematographic devices to the wrong persons. In all fairness this should be righted while it is still possible to do so.
Among the more valuable accessions to the collection is an accumulation of U. S. Patent Papers, brought together by the late Jean A. LeRoy and presented to the Society for the historical display at the Los Angeles Museum by Mrs. Jean A. LeRoy. Among the patent papers represented are those relating to motion picture devices from 1860 to the present. The collection is an extensive representation of the patent literature, particularly of the years circa 1900. The last fifteen years are not so complete. A number of the patent papers are being placed on exhibition in swinging frames in the Motion Picture Gallery at the Los Angeles Museum.
Another accession to the exhibit -is an Edison Exhibition Model Projector of the type introduced about 1901. It is complete with an arc light, double lenses for stereo projection, lantern slide arrangement and various devices used by a projectionist of the time. The projector was semi-portable and was contained in a wooden box so
* Presented at the Fall, 1934, Meeting at New York, N. Y.
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