Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1943 — Page 8

=¢ VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

An Outline of History|

THE CONVERSATION drifted around to the movies. The taproom philosophers had won the war and settled the peace and it was getting time for some of the fellows to catch the bus back for camp. The eynie in the far corner piped up again, observing that the motion picture Industey was like a senile, old man, rich, powerful, basking in the glories ‘What denanded the cynic rhetorically, “is more indica«

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trigued by the Edison experiments, patented a process called “Kine matography —the taking of pietures on celluloid. This became the basis for motion picture photography. At the same time, George Easte man of Rochester, N. Y., was seeking a suitable roll film for his new-fangled kodak. He began the manufacture of a photographic material with a nitrocellular base. Tom Edison bought a sample to use in his motion pieture device. By October of that year, Mr Edison and Mr. Dickson developed their movie to an experimental peep-show machine. One person looking into an aperture with one eve could see a motion picture The original kinetoscope used the same width of film Which iS in commercial use today, but it photographed and showed ple. tures at the rate of 40-odd ex- | posures a second, compared to | today's slower rate of 24, In 1803 the first motion picture | studio was built at West Orange, N. J. by Mr. Edison. It used | sunlight for illumination and cost | about $600 to construct. They called it the “Black

oneself? For most of those present, the | movies began with “Birth of Nation” or “Orphans of the Storm” and came full bloom with Mae We But there were some who recalled “The Great Train Robber That was in 1903 the motion picture is only 65 years old this year. History | ie sometimes dull, but so are the movies. sometimes, and a combination of dull subjects seems apdull day with an | mood and tantrums of |

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propriate for a overcast rain The motion picture is the product the 10th centuty’s spurt of | invention. Let us go back. ” = e IN THE DAYS when Leland Stanford referred to a well-known «man in California, rather than to a rose bowl contender, one of the scientific discussions in the world of sport revolved about whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground at the game time It seems a little strange that guch a problem animal husbandry should launch a thousand but, on “reflection, not strange, for some of the movies we see today appear to

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move on all fours and the horsy influence is still strong Moreover, they still refer to a studio of stars as a stable which more often apropos than not. | i du At anv rate, Mr. Leland Stanford the railroad magnate and sportsman. insisted that a horses four hooves left the ground at the same time and was bent on proving it. So he assighed John D. Isaacs, |

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JORDAN TO HOLD THREE RECITALS

Three recitals will be given by students of the | tory of Music this week. | Miss Paula Blust, voice major,

an engineer, and Eadweard Muybridge. a photographer, to set up a row of cameras and take pictures of a horse in motion, The results proved Stanford was right. They not only won his bet at the club. but incidentally became the first photographic analysis of motion—a step in technological progress that might be compared without prejudice to the invention of the wheel, IN 1881, a Frenchman Jean Louis Meissonnijer was having an argument with the French Academy over animal postures. To prove his point, he acquired the Muybridge photos and arranged them on what was then known as a projection Zoetropic machine, the invention of Henry Renno Heyl of Philadelphia. Whether M

the Odeon. Viola students of Harriet Payne will play Thursday night. Miss | Mildred Reimer, voice student, will give her graduation recital Friday inight. Both recitals will be held at the Odeon,

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LYRIC “White Savage.” with Jon Hall and Maria Montez, at 12:08, 2:40, 5:20, 8 and 10:40 “It Comes Up Love.” with Gloria Jean, at 11, 1:35 4:15 6:55 and 9:38.

with Lupe Velez 11:25, 2:35, Meissonnier won his argument with the French Academy is not recorded. However. he did show the first motion picture by projection. i Thomas A. Edison is familiar | to us as the father of the motion picture, He experimented with it for its own sake. In 1887, he started William K. L. Dickson at work on a machine to take and view pictures in motion. What Mr. Edison was doing was casting about for a sight device to tie in with his phonograph and create moving pictures with sound. Later, the sight-sound idea was dropped as each medium developed separately only to merge once again 40 years later in Al Jolson's “The Jazz Singer.” » = » THE BARLY attempts of Mn, Edison's assistant to achieve the sound picture with a cylinder device, similar to the old-fashioned phonograph cylinder, failed. So Mr. Edison began experimenting with belt and tape devices running around two pulleys. In 1889, William Friese-Greene England, who had been in-

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She will make her “adult debut” | in the role of an ingenue in David Selznick’s “Since Away. The film is from an unpublished | hook by Margaret Buell Wilder |

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at the Washington high Sea auditorium, | Opening with an invocation by the| Rev. BE. EB. Russell of the Bighth| Christian church, the program will include the mothers’ chorus of dis-| trict 21, the chancel choir of Speedway Christian church, a violin solo | by Mary Katherine Stair, organ duet by Beverly Farquar and | Barbara Sartor, the Fleming Gar-| den Christian church chorus, chorus of district 34, an all-girl or- | chestra and the Allison Engineering |

be directed by Mrs, Jane Johnson Burroughs and Ralph Wright. eral school choruses also will participate. Mrs. William H. Hodgson is gene eral chairman of the sing. She is assisted by Mrs, Roscoe Conkle and Mrs. Burton Knight, The event is being held in cenjunction with national music week.

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