Movie Memories

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] Jim the fireman had gone to bed was quickly roused and quickly fled by getting the engine away from the shed poor little devil did you hear that cry a lot Jim went for risk to take these upside down it's my mistake they saved the child this can be seen a hero gym not Save the Queen about this time 1887 an American George Eastman was separating the films from a series of photographic dry plates showing a subject in movement experimenting with various pliable transparent bands including Celluloid he thus anticipated the idea of the role film to come his friend Edison promptly used it in conjunction with his kinetoscope machines Nickel in the sloth peep shows into which only one person could look at a time Harrison also set up a company to produce short films the Music Hall was the film's first contact with the stage but no one of Rochester who had perfected it for his kudak camera Eastman's film solved Edison's film problem in this crew cabinet is the actual machine built by Addison in 1889 to use the roll film this is the film takeoff mechanism here is the negative of one of those films notice that the images are exposed horizontally along the film the circular aperture and the sprocket holds along one Edge watch this 1889 motion picture is a scale model the entire building revolved on wheels or Edison had installed a much larger kinetograph and everything had to be brought to the camera including the sun's Rays admitted by adjusting the pedals in the Rope William K L Dixon one of Edison's principal assistants said we find that the contrasts are affected by the total exclusion of light from the lower end of the hall heightened by draperies of impenetrable black against which stands out in sharp relief the central stage on Winterplace the kinetographic subjects bathed in the full power of the solar rays stood into the copyright office with the necessary 50 cents [Music] started by Edison in 1894 the SE procedure became the accepted Method Of copywriting Motion Pictures until later when entire films were printed on paper rolls e each role being copyrighted as a single photograph [Music] popularly dated from April 23 1896 when Motion Pictures were shown as part of a program at a Broadway Theater Coster and Deals Music Hall Motion Pictures had been achieved the projector was the vitoscope built by Edison from the design of Thomas armot of Washington DC almost simultaneously cameras and projectors were invented in the United States and abroad this is the Jack from England came the damony gomont camera projector this bulky American mutagrass Camera was set up by its crew all over the world to make pictures for the mutus hards attached to the rotating wheel give the impression of continuous motion [Music] Barnes old buildings basements [Music] the shops disused premises of old descriptions to show the flickies in 1900 Chief late click films and topicals battling this was in 1897. watch for the little old lady with the parasol in the carriage 60 years a queen the Black Mariah set on a pivot on a circular track to follow the Sun and there's the second Edison Studio of 1909. Glass Walls enabled them to utilize the full strength of the Sun seen projector known as the oil projector this is a polyscope invented in 1908 by the first man ever to make Motion Pictures in California William Seely titles came into being [Music] [Applause] and here are some posters advertising the early movies movies were brand new and the public had to be convinced so a sample of the film was given out to people on the street in front of the theater to show them what it was all about otherwise they might have gone in and become frightened and Heavens knows what my electric theater of 1908 summer like Drake they're all set for the performance ah but our way I'm not so sure this takes time yes that goes down there and round here and the peanut is getting nervous went off says the operator your vile woman so Mr peace I'll beat him up like Bali and out of the Bush's steps handsome Charlie you made love to my wife girl oh take care he mustn't be golden look out you're done fool that pistol was loaded the search is on where is that man what oh dear oh dear look that wasn't our grand slam bang young the hither Charlie has them all of a dither [Music] yes sir on the tiles oh what a cloud allow mecons to go this way out but how does a film operate the film is composed of little separate snapshots or people get it closer each little picture is different and shows a different movement as the figure advances in the cinema the projector shutter acting like this momentarily covers the change from one little picture to the next notice the gentleman's legs when the filmers Run rapidly at 90 feet a minute an illusion of continuous movement is created [Music]