Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws (1919)

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Record Details:

Title:
Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws
Date:
1919
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1919)
Leaf #:
000305
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
September 12, 2024
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much like present day devices ; it had flexible fihn, moved step by step, and behind a single lens.^^' Plates, cards, paper strips, drums and glass discs had been used for animated pictures, but when in 1885 Rev. Goodwin invented the transparent celluloid flexible film the way was opened to rapid advance, for the necessary unlimited capacity in the picture carrier was then possible. In 1889, Mr. Dickson began, at Thos. A. Edison's direction, the development of a picture machine. News of what was being done appeared in print from time to time and the summer of 1894 saw the beginning of the public exhibition of his Kinetoscope, a box into which one looked to see picture in animation. The picture ribbon was passed continuously between a small lamp and the eye of the observer, the view being cut off by a rotating disc about a foot in diameter and having a one-eighth by one inch radial slit therein near the periphery. Through this flying slit the observer got a momentary sight of each picture frame as it i -31 ♦-» Appearance of first Kinetoscope. came into position above the light. The frames passed at the rate of 46 per second, a high speed being required because of the instantaneous view and meagre illumination. The pictures were small. Brooklyn Eagle, and Brooklyn Citizen, both of June 14, 1888. Scientific American, June 20, 1891, also U. S. Patent 493,426. 43