THE LATEST LIVING PICTURES.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XII, Issue 45, 7 April 1910, Page 3

THE LATEST LIVING PICTURES.

The stereo-cinema is the latest thing in moving portrait cameras. It hails from Paris, and is the invention of an ingenious gentleman named Reynaud.

When one calls to mind a friend’s face, it is not a single expression which comes up before the mental vision, but a series of expressions succeed each other rapidly, and are blended by the eye as the photographic objective cannot do, and it is the series of expressions that gives us the real physiognomy. Mr. Reynaud takes a cinematographic portrait and adds a steroscopic relief. In order to do this he has designed a praxinoscope, in which the successive images, taken from points of view sufficiently removed to satisfy the laws of stereos/ copy, are placed respectively at right and at left, in the interior of two disc-like receptacles turning together about a horizontal akis. Plain mirrors are placed at the centre, with an arrangement which, by displacing the Images on either side, enables the observer to view them under normal conditions with the aid of a pair of steroscopic prisms. They also may be projected on a screen by replacing these prisms with two object lenses. Moreover, the two series of images are so arranged that they are presented successively to the eyes without any cessation of continuous vision in the case of either eye. This doubles the number of images from the cinematographic point of view. Mr. Reynaud makes his own negatives either at his studio or at the subject's home, and he prints his positives on bands of paper that fit easily into the wheels. The device then is turned toward the window, oi toward a lamp, to light the pictures well, and the crank is turned, whereupon the observer sees before him a living and moving image of the person represented.