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 #:
00019
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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THE EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS (1896) A 1 t it Since the early motion-picture cameras were immovable, the performers had to move within a sharply limited space. Here is Eugene Sandow— next to Samson the most famous strong man in history— doing his stuff for the Kinetoscope. ABOVE RIGHT The American Biograph Company made its debut at Hammerstein's Olympia Music Hall, in New York, during the fall of 1896, with several action shorts, including The Empire State Express. The locomotive bore down upon the audience with such terrifying realism— so the story goes— that it emptied the first fifteen rows and precipitated a near-panic. BELOW In 1896 T. L. Tally opened a Phonograph and Vitascope Parlor on Spring Street, Los Angeles, where the customers could hear the latest recorded song hits and see motion pictures. So timid were most of the patrons about going into the darkened projection room that Tally had to rig up a partition facing the screen, with holes in it through which the public could view the pictures while remaining in the brightly lighted parlor. In the picture, the Kinetoscopes are at the left, the Mutoscopes in the center, and the phonographs at the right. Just behind the Mutoscopes is the projection-room partition, with three holes for the seated patrons and four for the standees.