Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . Fig. 191 174 LIVING PICTURES, EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPE. This machine, introduced into this country sometime ago, is shown in Fig. 192, which is almost self-explanatory. The spool-bank serves for the accommo-. FiG. 192. dation of a long endless band of views, and intermittentmotion is secured by the interaction of a star-wheeland pin. The latest name of this apparatus appearsto be the Projectoscope. THE BIRTAC. This little instrument has not come under theAutho
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . Fig. 191 174 LIVING PICTURES, EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPE. This machine, introduced into this country sometime ago, is shown in Fig. 192, which is almost self-explanatory. The spool-bank serves for the accommo-. FiG. 192. dation of a long endless band of views, and intermittentmotion is secured by the interaction of a star-wheeland pin. The latest name of this apparatus appearsto be the Projectoscope. THE BIRTAC. This little instrument has not come under theAuthors personal notice. It is, however, described asusing films of half the ordinary width with a row ofperforations along one margin. Daylight spools areemployed for taking views; and the same apparatus,when fitted with a special incandescent burner, servesalso as a projector. The maker is Mr. Birt Acres. PRESENT-DAY APPARATUS. 175 OTTWAY S ANIMATOSCOPE. This machine, which is of very solid construction,-employs a Maltese cross actuated by two pins on asmooth disc as the intermittent .mechanism. Theshutter is serrated at its edges, and thus passes ashadow with an ill-defined edge across the screen, asin the older forms of dissolving view apparatus. Whenit is desired to project ordinary views during film-changing, a mirror is turned up at
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