The Revolving Lens Wheel Projector

The desire to reproduce motion in pictures, for the purpose of study and analysis, is the origin of the great motion picture industry. The stroboscope, as you know, was one of the early and rather crude instruments developed for motion study, and, strange as it may seem, its basic principles are still employed universally wherever motion pictures are shown. I refer particularly to the picking out of portions of a complete action by the shutter mechanism of the motion picture camera, and the presentation, through the medium of an intermittent mechanism, of these same portions of action on the screen of the theater. Such a recording and reproducing system, involving intermittent film movement, must necessarily fall far short of the ideal for the following reasons:

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1930-07

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J13030