Very beginning of the motion picture industry...
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April 22, 1895
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 22, 1895
* Motion picture industry beginnings
As is not uncommon when major, life-changing events are born, they are reports which command little attention and coverage by the newspapers. The flight of the Wright brothers is a classic example, with most reports from 1903 limited to a paragraph or two, and typically on an inside page.
Here is another. Page 2 has a short, inconspicuous--yet historically very significant--article headed: "Pantopticon Rivals the Kinetoscope" which essentially marks the birth of the motion picture industry.
As a bit of background "history.com" notes the significance of the report in its "This Day In History" page for April 21, one day prior to this issue date:
"On this day in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the first movie projector developed in the United States. Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not projected to a large audience. Brothers Grey and Otway Latham, the founders of a company that produced and exhibited films of prize fights using the Kinetoscope, called on their father, Woodville, and W.K.L. Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a screen in order to attract larger audiences."
See the photo for the full text of the article, which ends with the significance of the development: "...The effect is precisely like that of a kinetoscope, only that the pictures are much larger, and can be seen by a large number of people assembled in the darkened room." This was essentially the first movie theater.
Complete as a 12 page issue, some chipping at the margins, some edge tears, mostly loose at the spine, most be handled carefully due to the fragile nature of the paper.
* Motion picture industry beginnings
As is not uncommon when major, life-changing events are born, they are reports which command little attention and coverage by the newspapers. The flight of the Wright brothers is a classic example, with most reports from 1903 limited to a paragraph or two, and typically on an inside page.
Here is another. Page 2 has a short, inconspicuous--yet historically very significant--article headed: "Pantopticon Rivals the Kinetoscope" which essentially marks the birth of the motion picture industry.
As a bit of background "history.com" notes the significance of the report in its "This Day In History" page for April 21, one day prior to this issue date:
"On this day in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the first movie projector developed in the United States. Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not projected to a large audience. Brothers Grey and Otway Latham, the founders of a company that produced and exhibited films of prize fights using the Kinetoscope, called on their father, Woodville, and W.K.L. Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a screen in order to attract larger audiences."
See the photo for the full text of the article, which ends with the significance of the development: "...The effect is precisely like that of a kinetoscope, only that the pictures are much larger, and can be seen by a large number of people assembled in the darkened room." This was essentially the first movie theater.
Complete as a 12 page issue, some chipping at the margins, some edge tears, mostly loose at the spine, most be handled carefully due to the fragile nature of the paper.
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