FATHER OF THE CINEMA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 265, 28 October 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

FATHER OF THE CINEMA.

the man WHO made: the FIRST MOVING pirn re

il>h >i’“ - :ls £°‘ n " Con-1 * * , . ~„ , „ who ori- « Enjiuhman El- 1 Muybridge. who cmig 4.-1 from 1- CM "onea the ’forties, an I s-'t led m L .U.rorn a. when- later on h- obiaim-l an appointment ns phoiogranhic sui-v.-yor <>• th Pacific Coast. . ~ , . The first ir-v-. ii.etur.- "J''' h , produced wn< re.i.iy >■■•- ‘”* * ° ■ T wager made hot - -en lhe, Governm el California (1.-'an I >,.ntorß ; nl ' ft lend as to whether a tie:-> met «... four logs off th- ground nt the sanm moment while running. Muybridgewas asked to settle the nun*.. He placed tiventy-foin MnrM- tn n hue to com i each uwn-m-nt of ’h- 1 none ajr.l the c.-nicra-sb.’it •r- being moved >y connecting-i’icci'' <>t string "'h ll ' l 4 animal broke as he pa-.d The rcsuh it H’s n cpt nf pet - Ini*” in K ca(»i movement of the h .r=--. It settled the n-giiment. for M-.’-Hlgo was n'de to flirt, e\r-nt vJu-n lumping th*' never h;iil rll !■*> f<rt off th** ground at one time. This rxr.eri iv tv. i.it's.-d Muybridge to think what an int.roding thing it would bo to present the photos in motion. To reproduce the . iT.- t upon a screen, using nhotogranbs. "as a mechanical feat which was finally connncrcd. the movements of the ho-se being shown, but no background. This was before the introduction of ♦he flexible film for the camera,, and bi*fere rnnid i>h--t.-.e--!-.d;v had been deve’oned Mnvbri.h'o lived to see the wonderful moving inctnre of to-day. and di. 1 in Iffll at h ; s home in England, xr, i. .ft w »»h the officials of the comrmnitr nnd his friends the photographs and much of the anparafus used in his experiments.