Kinematographic Experiences

The first commercial showing of motion pictures in England was probably made by two men with six Edison peep-show Kinetoscopes installed in a shop in Old Broad Street, London, in 1894. Six duplicates of these devices (which had not been patented in England) were built in that year by Paul, and sixty machines during 1895. A camera having a cam-driven intermittent movement was also built in 1895 from a design by Paul and Acres, the latter an English photographer. Printing and developing equipment were developed to process the films made with the camera. In 1895 a second camera was constructed in which intermittency was achieved by means of a modified Geneva stop. The public interest shown in the Kinetoscope and its inadaptability for projection stimulated Paul late in 1895 to design a projector having an intermittent movement consisting of a seven-toothed starwheel. — Many interesting experiences in making and exhibiting pictures during 1896 and subsequent years are described. The first motion picture studio in Great Britain was designed and built by Paul in 1899 at Muswell Hill, North London. Trick films and scientific pictures were made there as well as other subjects. The project was closed about 1910 because it was regarded as too speculative as a side-line to instrument making.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1936-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J08610