The Picture Show Annual (1926)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1926
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
Picture Show Annual (1926)
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Global Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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12 Picture Show Anttual rf n-rT T he history of the cinema goes back much farther than most people imagine. If we include in the word “ cinema " every form of moving or animated picture, we find that a man named Desvignes devised a machine in 1860 which, in a way, made pictures move. But, long before this. Dr, Peter Mark Roget (author of the famous Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases) had discovered the principle on whch moving photographs is founded. It would be more correct to say that Dr. Roget stumbled on the discovery. In an idle moment he was staring through the slats of a Vene- tian blind in his drawing- room, his gaze, but not his mind, fixed on a horse and cart that was going up the street. The doctor’s eyes moved up and down the blind, and, to his astonish- ment, the effect was to make the horse and cart appear stationary. A book could be written about Dr, Roget *s experiments, but it is sufficient to say that Sir John Herschel, the famous astronomer, was induced by - U The First Discovery— Many Inventors—When England Supplied America with Pictures — The Film —' Future Scene from a Pioneer Screen Melo- drama, "The Automobile Thieves." John Bunny and Helen Gardtrer in " Vanity Fair." {Vitagraph.) Norma Talmadge heroine in "An American i Home." (Blackton)