A Museum of Motion Picture History

T. K. Peters

It may seem presumptious for me to write this plea for a museum, when there are others in the Society who are far better fitted to take up the task, as for instance, Mr. Jenkins, who has made a beginning in this direction by placing in the Smithsonian Institution some of his first apparatus. But as no one else has stepped forward to do so, I have been endeavoring to gather material for the project. I feel as though I were stealing Mr. Jenkins' thunder, but in a measure he has brought this condition about, for it was due to my perusal of his book, Animated Pictures which I purchased in 1897, that I became fired with the ambition to also make Chronophotographic pictures, or in other and more modern language become a “movie” man.

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1925-09
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J10350