. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. uch rapid succes-sion that they appeared to be imbued with life. Children,skipped, the lips of an orator moved in speaking, and soon. It certainly was a marvellous device, and those whoavailed themselves of the opportunity to see it in operationby means of the nimble nickel, expressed undisguisedwonderment; to many it appeared uncanny. The Kinetoscope, Fig. 3, was housed in a woodencabinet with a hinged door at one side. Within was awooden frame A, which carried a series of small reels Band B1 arranged in two horizontal rows at either edge of t
. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. uch rapid succes-sion that they appeared to be imbued with life. Children,skipped, the lips of an orator moved in speaking, and soon. It certainly was a marvellous device, and those whoavailed themselves of the opportunity to see it in operationby means of the nimble nickel, expressed undisguisedwonderment; to many it appeared uncanny. The Kinetoscope, Fig. 3, was housed in a woodencabinet with a hinged door at one side. Within was awooden frame A, which carried a series of small reels Band B1 arranged in two horizontal rows at either edge of theframe. At the top of the frame there were two larger CH. IV THE KINETOSCOPE 3i wheels C, between which was a magnifying lens the latter there was a small electric lamp andreflector F. In front of the magnifying lens there was adisc having a narrow radial slot near its edge, which con-stituted the shutter. This was rotated continuously, andcompleted one revolution during the passage of each imageacross the eye-piece or magnifying Fig. 3.—Edisons First Kinetoscope. The ribbon of pictures, printed as transparencies upon astrip of celluloid film, somewhat dense so as to bring outthe detail, formed an endless band E, 40 feet in was threaded over the various reels in the mannershown in the illustration, and finally passed over the firstlarge wheel C, thence to the second large wheel C, and back 32 MOVING PICTURES chap. once more on to the reels B B1. Though 40 feet consti-tuted the average length of film employed, longer onescould be used within certain limits, by increasing thenumber of reels on the frame. As the film passed fromone of the large wheels C to the other, it had totraverse the field of the magnifying lens, and the light,striking through the transparency, gave the person lookingthrough the eye-piece a slightly magnified view of thepicture. The cabinet stood on end, so that one had to bend overthe instrument to peer through the small eye-pi
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