. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. ph film are ofan inflammable nature, the resultant fabric is naturallyalso highly inflammable. This danger in the early daysseverely menaced the development of the industry, especi-ally since those occupied in projection were careless of themost elementary precautions. The film, after passingthrough the lantern, fell a dishevelled mass into abasket, where it formed a tangled heap of thin combustiblematerial, as inflammable as petrol-soaked emits a vapour of an explosive nature, and it isalways dangerous to use a naked light i
. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. ph film are ofan inflammable nature, the resultant fabric is naturallyalso highly inflammable. This danger in the early daysseverely menaced the development of the industry, especi-ally since those occupied in projection were careless of themost elementary precautions. The film, after passingthrough the lantern, fell a dishevelled mass into abasket, where it formed a tangled heap of thin combustiblematerial, as inflammable as petrol-soaked emits a vapour of an explosive nature, and it isalways dangerous to use a naked light in its closeproximity. Yet custom rendered the operator heedless ofthe danger. The outcome was inevitable. Legislationstepped in and ordained that the projector should be en-cased in a steel fire-proof chamber for the protection of thepublic. The result was that the cinematograph was barredfrom many places where the magic lantern was used. Moving pictures could not be shown at such establish-ments as schools, merely because they did not possess a.
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