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MOT I OS PICTURE MAGAZINE
tlif eye, a second i in b g e is exposed tO v'lcW,
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These toys were the immediate forerunners of modern Motion Pictures, and they were hased on the same principle. We already had "magic-lanterns," or stereopticons, and by means of painted or photographic glass slides we could throw pictures on the screen one at a time. Bui they could not be thrown on the screen rapidly enough to produce apparent motion, and so it became evident thai instead of a glass slide something flexible would have to be substituted. Mr. Eastman, of the Eastman Kodak Company, proved to lie the man who was to furnish the aext link in the Moving Picture chain, for he came forward witli the flexible celluloid film that could
be rolled upon a spool or ^^^ v£^h *CrC& picture and putl reel. Next came numer __§kft Jj^N r\^* another? If y
ons inventions of cameras and projection machines (lanterns), notably those of Mr. Edison and Mr. Powers, and then the taking and making of whal we now call Motion Pictures was started on its journey. It is. no doubt, clear to yon now, that tins long strip of film contains countless
small pictures, and that they are
thrown on tic Bcreen one at a time,
hut in sin-h rapid siircrssion that the
cannol counl them, and we think it is onlj one picture vi ith the figures in it in motion. I forgol to mention that a man once placed a large Dumber of cameras along the side of a racetrack, and arranged tilings so
that every time the horse took a step
a picture was taken, eacb with a differed camera, When he held all the
finished photographs together, and moved them like the swinging-girl pictures I told you about, he got the effect of a horse in motion. But you can readily see that he was a long ways off from Motion Pictures, because, according to his method, he would have to have many thousand cameras and operators to take a single picture, whereas only one of each is now required. You can figure it out for yourself; they now take sixteen pictures a second, and a full reel runs about sixteen minutes, or nine hundred and sixty seconds. Besides, there was the trouble of unmanageable glass plates, for if you have ever carried around a dozen, you will understand how difficult it would be to manage several thousand, and then how could you move them in front of a lantern at the rate of sixteen a second? And how could you shut off the light for the tiniest fraction of a second, while
you were taking off one
putting on
ou did
not do this, one picture would blur the other, and you could not see either one distinctly. And so there were a hundred different problems to solve; a hundred different links in the chain to be put together; a hundred different troubles. The cave-men of many thousand years ago helped, as 1 have shown you. The man who first invented the "Jumping Jack" helped — altho this toy indicated the love of motion more than it
did a method of producing it. Hundreds of men have all lent a hand in producing the greal Motion Pictures of today, and to each we all owe a
big debt of gratitude. Donl you think so?
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