Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . 66, CHRONO-PIIOTOGRAPHY. 63 rendered the production of a long series of photographsin rapid succession possible. Many steps leading upto this desirable consummation have been quoted inthe past pages, and methods of securing rapid exposureswere invented to keep pace with increasing speed ofplates ; indeed, it may be said that as a general ruleit has always been possible to procure a shutter sorapid in its action that it refused to yield a picture, andshutter devices
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . 66, CHRONO-PIIOTOGRAPHY. 63 rendered the production of a long series of photographsin rapid succession possible. Many steps leading upto this desirable consummation have been quoted inthe past pages, and methods of securing rapid exposureswere invented to keep pace with increasing speed ofplates ; indeed, it may be said that as a general ruleit has always been possible to procure a shutter sorapid in its action that it refused to yield a picture, andshutter devices have always been ahead rather thanabreast of plate speeds. The idea of using a band for the purpose oflengthening the series of views is almost as ancient as. Fig. 67. the Phenakistoscope itself. In fact, the first publisheddescription of the Stroboscope contains a suggestion ofthis character, Stampfer therein intimating that a longendless band might be passed over two rollers, providedthat suitable means were employed in order to interruptthe light at correct intervals of time. And, indeed,this fact was never lost sight of. Desvignes, in i860,proposed to place his Zoetropic designs on endlessbands (Fig. 67), but in the days of wet-plate photo-graphy such an expedient was entirely out of thequestion so far as securifig pictures was concerned,and even the early dry-plate, with all the assistanceit rendered, .lent no substantial aid in this direction. 6^ LIVING PICTURJES. Thus, in 1876, Donisthorpe proposed to place hisKinesigraph pictures on a band arranged to run offone roller on to another, but only for purposes ofinspection ; the negatives from which they were printedwere obliged to be obtained at a comparatively lowspeed on plates and th
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