. Popular science monthly. Walking Hoese. Side, Feont and Muybridge, however, not only took [the first photographs of moving objectsbut also first projected them on ascreen, thus leading directly to themodern exhibitions of moving he did in lectures, beginning in1880, and on a large scale at the Chi-cago exposition of 1893, where a build-ing was especially erected in which heexhibited flocks of birds flying across ascreen, athletes wrestling and similarmoving pictures. In 1886 Muybridge consulted the inventor of the phono-graph with a view to reproducing sim-ultaneously visible a
. Popular science monthly. Walking Hoese. Side, Feont and Muybridge, however, not only took [the first photographs of moving objectsbut also first projected them on ascreen, thus leading directly to themodern exhibitions of moving he did in lectures, beginning in1880, and on a large scale at the Chi-cago exposition of 1893, where a build-ing was especially erected in which heexhibited flocks of birds flying across ascreen, athletes wrestling and similarmoving pictures. In 1886 Muybridge consulted the inventor of the phono-graph with a view to reproducing sim-ultaneously visible actions and auditorywords. Neither method of reproduc-tion was, however, at that time suffi-ciently advanced, and. it was necessaryto wait until last year, when Mr. Edi-son was able to synchronize in a satis-factory manner the pictures and thesounds. Although the reproduction of a playby moving pictures and the phono- THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 5*7. Back Views in Twelve Positions. graph is far from being perfected, itmay be that before long such copies ofplays and operas by leading actors andsingers with the best possible stage set-tings may be more effective than theaverage performance, as the photo-graphic reproduction of a great paint-ing may have more artistic value thanan inferior original. As much as$150,000 has been spent on the pro-duction of a single set of films, andleading actors, such as Madame Bern- hardt and Sir H. Beerbohn Tree haveacted before the film camera. At pres-ent most of the shows exhibit crudefarces and melodramas, and it may notbe altogether satisfactory that a thirdas much money is spent .on them as onour entire public school system. We, may hope, however, that the moving-picture show will make possible a dem-ocratic development of art and becomean educational institution of the great- i est possible consequence. 5i8 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
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