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20 THE NEW SPIRIT IN THE CINEMA
years before Edison came to the front in this connection.1 (The date may be a misprint for 1889.) In 1889 Friese-Greene invented the camera which admitted of a series of intermittent photographs to be taken on a band of sensitised celluloid film. He was the inventor of commercial cinematography. He invented the first camera.2 Friese-Greene was the first by three years to invent the film.3 In 1890 Edison solved the final problems by replacing glass plates by a flexible film, inventing a machine to pass this film through a camera and before a projecting light.4 In 1899 George Eastman replaced glass plates by a flexible film.5 In 1899 George Eastman invented the modern film.6 In 1887 Edison attacked the final problems.7 In 1889 George Eastman began the manufacture of films on a nitro-cellulose base.8
In 1890, the first film ever taken shows a scene at Hyde Park Corner.9 August Lumiere was the pioneer of cinematography (about the eighteen nineties).10 Kinematography 1892.11 The first picture projected. No picture was ever projected on a screen till 1896.12 The first colour picture was projected in 1895.13 In 1890 Friese-Greene projected his pictures on a screen at Chester.14 In March, 1896, there was a Cinema entertainment at the Alhambra — surely one of the first in London. An Englishman, Robert Paul, exhibited the " Animatograph " and a tentative engagement was extended to one of a year.15 Mr. Paul is the man who projected the very first picture on a screen
1 The Daily News, September 9, 1929.
2 W. Day, in The Times Film Number, March 19, 1929.
3 W. Day, in The Evening News, November 19, 1929.
4 » The Film Finds Its Tongue," by Fitzhugh Green.
5 " The King Who Was A King," by H. G. Wells.
e " xhe Film Finds Its Tongue," by Fitzhugh Green. 7 " Ency. Brit.," Vol. 15, 14th Ed., 855. s Ibid.
9 The Daily News, November, 1928.
10 The Evening Standard, October 14, 1929.
11 Labour " Historical Synopsis," Sheet IV., 1876-1899.
12 The Film Weekly, November 1, 1929.
13 Ibid.
14 The Times Film Number, March 19, 1929.
15 Londoner's Diary, The Evening Standard, December 6, 1929.