Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked

Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked

The marvellous, universal popularity of moving pictures is my reason for writing this volume. A vast industry has been established of which the great majority of picture-palace patrons have no idea, and the moment appears timely to describe the many branches of the art. I have endeavoured to deal with the whole subject in a popular and comprehensive manner. I have been assisted by several friends, who have enabled me to throw considerable light upon the early history of motion photography and the many problems that had to be mastered before it met with public appreciation:MM. Weiss and Bull, the Director and Assistant-Director respectively of the Marey Institute in Paris; M. Georges Demeny; Messrs. Frank L. Dyer, the President of Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated; W.F. Greene, Robert W. Paul, James Williamson, Lumire & Sons, Richard G. Hollaman, the Eastman Kodak Company, Dr. J. Comandon, F. Percy Smith, Albert Smith, and the numerous firms engaged in one or other of the various branches of the industry. I am indebted especially to the editor of LIllustration, the well-known Parisian illustrated weekly newspaper, in conjunction with the Socit des tablissements Gaumont, for permission to publish the photographs illustrating Chapters XIX., XX., and XXI., as well as the frontispiece;viii also to Mr. A.A. Hopkins, the author of Magic, and to Messrs. Munn & Co., the proprietors of The Scientific American, of New York, U.S.A. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67972
Author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
Release Date: May 2, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Publication Date: 1914
Publisher Country: United States