The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (May 1897)

78 The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. several novelties, and his electric lamps are to be fouud in many of the London and provincial theatres. baad me bead Sausages from Dogs and Cats.—A very humorous set of animated photographs has | recently been made in New York. A man is secn turning ths handle of a huge sausage machine, from the spout of which sausages are pouring out. During the operation several men come on the scene, and drop small dogs and cats into the large hopper. These run through an opening behind and can be used over and over again. ot me cs Skeleton Slides. —Messrs. Newton and Co. have made lantern slides of a boy of 14 years of age showing the whole skeleton by Xrays. This firm report business as being brisk, and they have had to take and fit up extra workshops in order to afford room for their men, a ~ te ‘* Photographic Life.”—During the past | three months we have noted with interest the growtli of the latest photo-weekly. Photographic Infe grew out of the ashes of the Photographic Jtevicw, and is ably conducted by Mr. Walter D. Welford, of 19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C. Prize competitions and a ladies’ column are among the new features introduced in this paper. “ oo te Oxygen Generator. — We learn that a generator invented by Mr. Suiter has been taken over by a syndicate, with offices at 96, | Leadenhall Street, H.C. A limited company — has been formed, and shares are now offered to | the public. Not having had an opportunity afforded us of seeing or trying this apparatus, we are unable to speak of any merits it may possess. ad > od Negative Examiner and Camera Obscura combined.—A new device for examining negatives or lantern slides has been invented by Mr. W. A. Eddy, of Bayonne, N.J., U.S.A. It can also be employed as a camera obscura. A reflector box is made with an apertured rear wall and inclined apertured support at its front end, a mirror at the bottom throwing the light entcring through the rear aperture on au article placed on the support. A stationary closed section, on which slides an outwardly niovable sight section, extends up in front of the inclined support. The article on the support may be illuminated in two ways, either directly or by reflection by the mirror, the light falling on the article being regulated as desired in either case. Cinematographist.—Time was when the person who presided at the lantern at a limelight entertainment was spoken of as the lantern operator, but it appears that a new appellation is now applied to this individual when animated photographs form a part of the entertainment. A certain well-known lantern operator lad occasion lately to fill in a form when effecting a life insurance. Under the heading of ‘* Occupation,” he wrote the word cinematographist. The word was evidently not understood at the Insurance Company’s headquarlers, and it had eventually to be altered to ‘‘ photographer and lanternist.” * = ~ Testimonials re Animated Photographs. —‘' Every eye sees itsown beauty.’ Two young men recently began a tour with a few very indifferent cinematographic films. When they were exhibited in a large town the report in a certain paper described them as “ blurred, streaky, and uninteresting,’ whereas, when the game pictures were exhibited at the village of ——, the local paper said they were “highly artistic, clearly defined, and of such great interest that they fairly brought down the house.” The second testimonial will probably be printed on the prospectus, but the first will be left to die a natural death. ~ -GQE< Explosion of an Acetyiene Gas Generator at Hampstead. pom i Y experience of acetylene gas, writes Mr. Henry I. Miller, of Hampstead, may be a warning to some “4#s of the readers of this journal. F po ‘ or some time I have used an “. ‘Incanto’ generator, at first inee doors, but subsequently (on account of <%o the sinell) out af doors, with a long rubber tube to my lantern. I have always ; found that at intervals the gas will force its way : out of the water and escape into the air, no / matter how carefully the calcium carbide is ' broken up; but I was not prepared for what | happened on the last occasion of my using the apparatus. Having to do some enlarging, I put the vcnerator outside the house, aud having got the lautern ready, proceeded as usual with the uianufacture of the gas. In order not to have the mixture of gas and air passing into the roou) through the burner, I disconnected the . tube from the gas outlet, and applied a match