The talkies (1930)

Page scan 00033 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00033
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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THETALKIES 9 ciently transparent to show the pictures through, but he was not satisfied with this paper film and looked about for a more suitable "base" for his light-sensitive emulsion. Finally, with the assistance of an expert chemist friend he produced the first celluloid motionpicture film, and made a picture of Hyde Park Corner, which was later exhibited at Chester in 1890. In the meanwhile Edison, who heard of the Kodak Company's experiments with celluloid, sent post haste to Mr. Eastman for a strip of this new material. Frieze-Greene had in the meanwhile, however, patented his invention, and there is no doubt whatever that he held the master patent for all moving pictures as they are produced to-day. Mr. Day has a fragment of one of his early films made of a scene in Chelsea. Frieze-Greene was not to live to enjoy the fruits of his extraordinary invention or, indeed, of the many other brilliant ideas which emerged from his fertile brain. Misfortune struck him down as it eclipsed Le Prince and wellnigh crushed the pioneer Talkie inventor. Space forbids us to describe either his other work or his remarkable cameras and projectors