Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912) . ? and as we read his alwaysinteresting pages we are reminded ol thetoy in our nursery days The Wheel olLife, which when spun round, and onelooked through the peephole, reproduced asmall army of moving figures. This un-doubtedly was the forerunner of what wenow know as The Moving Picture, andlittle did its unknown inventor dream thatthe principle that governed his simpletoy, would one day, in another form, causesuch a stir in the entertainment world, asthe cinematograph has done, First Moving Picture Machine. Thomas Aha Eddison was the man topublicly ex
Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912) . ? and as we read his alwaysinteresting pages we are reminded ol thetoy in our nursery days The Wheel olLife, which when spun round, and onelooked through the peephole, reproduced asmall army of moving figures. This un-doubtedly was the forerunner of what wenow know as The Moving Picture, andlittle did its unknown inventor dream thatthe principle that governed his simpletoy, would one day, in another form, causesuch a stir in the entertainment world, asthe cinematograph has done, First Moving Picture Machine. Thomas Aha Eddison was the man topublicly exhibit the Hist moving picturemachine at the Worlds Fair, I liicago, inI but it was an Englishman, Mr. K. , who first discovered how to throw themoving pictures on to a screen, and he mayjustly be called the father of the immenseindustry since built up, though even now inits infancy, as those declare who ought toknow. This invention lifted animated Tinphotography from the realm of experiment that of commercial THE [. A Thrilling Moment. How success ultimately crowned Mr. Pauls efforts to invent thenecessary projector, is well told by Mr. Talbot : ? About three oclock one morning in the earl v months of 1895. thequietness of Hatton Garden was disturbed by loud and prolongedshouts. The police rushed hurriedly to the building from whencethe shouts proceeded, and found Mr. Pauland his colleagues in their workshop, givingvent to whole-hearted exhuberance oftriumph. They had just succeded inthrowing the first perfect animated picturesupon a screen. To compensate the policetor their fruitless investigation, the film,which was 40 feet in length, and produceda picture 7 feet square, was run through thelantern for their special edification. Theyregarded the strange spectacle as amplecompensation and had the satisfaction olbeing the firct members of the public to seemining pictures thrown upon the screen. First Picture Palace. The new invention was shown at Ol
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