A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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BIRTH AND INFANCY thi. Wonderful Mutoscope showinc MOVING PICTURES «««« FROM LIFE The First Projected Picture. In 1894 Woodville Latham perfected a machine somewhat similar to the Kinetoseope, with the added feature of being able to project its pictures on a screen. He and his sons, Grey and Otway, figured they could make much more money from a picture if thirty or forty customers could see it at once, instead of waiting their turn to peep through the eyepiece of a machine. For their new apparatus they photographed a prize fight between Young Griffo and Battling Barnett on the roof of New York's Madison Square Garden and exhibited the result on May 20, 1895. IN 5L0T-KEEP TURNING CRANK TO THE RIOHT, AND VOU WILL SEE How the Porto Rican Girls Entertain Uncle Sam's Soldiers. The lucrativeness of the Kinetoseope soon brought rivals into the field. Here is a poster (about 1895) for one of the most successful of these, the Mutoscope. BELOW The First Shocker. Among the peep-show epics of 1896 was this one, showing May Irwin and John C. Rice in the prolonged kiss episode from their stage success, The Widow Jones. Members of the clergy denounced it as "a lyric of the stockyards": it broke all attendance records.