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 #:
00019
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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positively stopped so as tt obtain sharply defined pictures; by reason of liie regularity of the advance of the film these pictures -A-ere equidistant; as the caiaera had but a single leno these pictures showed successive positions of an object in motion as observed from a single point of view; they were arranged In continuous straight line aequence; they were sufficient in nuraber on account of t'ne capacity of the device advancing u long ctrip as much as several hundred or even thoufiancs of feat to reprtisent the noveiaents of an object throuiih tai extended period of time. The positive motion pictjres aould be readily produced on a 3irnilar long film providorl with perforations, and was shown and described in t/je oiiginal patent, whicn p(3rfo rations oaablod t};e moving picture to bo piojected in a projectini; .nad-ine through devices in aucii maciiLne advancing the film in a manner similar to Its ttdvuncoi-ient by the device of the camera and with similar rapidity. Kdison thus made practical what was before theoretical and impracticable, and was a pioneer in the moving picture art, the saiaa as Bexl in tlie art of telephony, ana otlier great iiw ontors in their respective arts. Kdison's invention of the camera and the motion pic -6