Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer. (1913)

Record Details:

Title:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer.
Date:
1913
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Justice
Volume:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice
Leaf #:
00013
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 30, 2023
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machine for exhibiting the scune without Infringing one or more of the two sets of patents covering projecting mac}iines. There had been, tl'ierefore, a large number of litigations arming:, under tus patents of those three sets. HiaTOKY OFTIU: MOTION PICTURE BUSINi^^SS FROM IT3 INCEPTION. THi: INVENTIOHS OF THiiJ PRINCIPAL OF ThE TMREK SETS OF PATENTS: AND THE VARIOUS LITIGATIONS INVOLVING TIK SATE. Prior to the indentions by Edison of the Edison reissues, the Zoetrope, a mechaiiical toy, had been contrived and described as early as 1834, it having a rotating drum open at the top with vertical slots against w'nich, on its inner side, were figures, in varying position, upon a strip of material. On rotating thin drum rapidly, these figures could be seen through these vertical slots, appearing as moving objects, due to what is known as the parsistence of visual impressions. In France, DuCos obtained a patent in 1864 describing a series of lenses on an endless band moved past a slit throuj^h which light was reflected fror. the otject to be photographed, the light acting on senaitixed paper or plates attached to another band and moved by pins on the lens band. For twenty-four years nothing was d ^no with this invention, and the art was quiescent until 1888, when -8