Moving Picture News (1911) . extensively, commencing round 92, withthe machine in England, projecting all the picturesthat were in use and made at that time. The machineused the same devices that were patented in Americain 1902 and 1905, thus show.^o- the flimsy claims onthe various patents of projecting machines and the fal-lacy of prosecuting innocent exhibitors. We have pointed out in previous issues facts likethese, over and over again, until we begin to thinkour readers will be tired of the reiteration of suchwell-known facts and ideas. Still as the mind of theAmerican is so plastic that
Moving Picture News (1911) . extensively, commencing round 92, withthe machine in England, projecting all the picturesthat were in use and made at that time. The machineused the same devices that were patented in Americain 1902 and 1905, thus show.^o- the flimsy claims onthe various patents of projecting machines and the fal-lacy of prosecuting innocent exhibitors. We have pointed out in previous issues facts likethese, over and over again, until we begin to thinkour readers will be tired of the reiteration of suchwell-known facts and ideas. Still as the mind of theAmerican is so plastic that many impressions veryquickly fade, so that lest we forget we again bringthese matters before our readers with a view of in-spiring them with some courage to fight the bitterantagonism of the Patents Company towards a greatand ever-growing industry. This company is indeed The dog in the manger,it cannot eat the hay, and will not let the cow eat other words, it is absolutely impossible for the. Patents Company and its licensees to supply thetrade with good film in sufiicient quantities to fill thedemand of the exhibitor and his patrons. We there-fore claim, as we always have done, an open fieldin which it shall be the strict absolute merit of theproject that shall be taken as a criterion, and subjectto the full approval of sincere praise. To show our readers that we are fully conversant 6 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS with the subject at issue, we herewith reproduce,from the actual machine, three cuts of a machinebuilt in the fall of 1892 and spring of 1893. This machine was operated in public as originally-constructed in the years 93 and 94. It will be ob-served by mechanics that the shutter is fixed in placeand the machine is so constructed that the loop wasabsolutely necessary. Before it could be used other-wise it would have been rapidly broken. This machine, as can be observed, had originallywood for the sprocket wheels, in which were drivenGerman silver pins. These sprocket
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