THE KINEMATOGRAPH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XVII, Issue 4192, 15 May 1897, Page 2

THE KINEMATOGRAPH.

Our readers are reminded that the Kinernafcograph will be exhibited this evening in the Orange Hall. This is an excelleat opportunity to eeeone of the greatest of Kdison's achievements. Miny of the children, and not a fa* of the older people have no notion what this machine with the long name is. We 1, in one word, it ia a magic lantern, but the magic lantern plays but a small part id the show. Let us imagine that a regimeufc of a thousand sqidiers are tit drill. x& man with a phbtogtEiphic apparatus plants himself on the nearest rising ground, and this photographic apparatus is capable of taking pictures at so rapid a rate and upon a continuous belt of celluloid, that in a few minutes one thousand piptures are taken. This belt when, handqd oyer to the ihQwman is sent at a high speed through the lantetn, with the^result —so fast are the pictures pup before the eye—that the sightseer sfses 1 t'jje whole movement nqt onjy of the complex regiment, but of ey*py soldiea in it, anijthf result is that que actually sees the living m n, and all they do, and'ti^eir every moyetnent ou the screen. We are only supposing t regiment, but a dancer, a bexing 'match, a carpenter at work, <he people |n a busy street—all they do, almost all they think--? can be shown. In addition tp the jdnemato r <raph, the Bray ton Bros, have an un ; limied number of lantern slides from all parts of the world, and while the necessary changes are beiag made at the kiuematograph these are shown to keep patrons entertained, but the elide pictures are the best to be obtained in the world of art.