Thursday, March 31, 2011

Eidolscope by Latham in late 18th century. (Edmund)

    A public showing of a four-minute film takes place in a storefront at 153 Broadway, New York on May 20. It was a boxing match which had been filmed by Woodville Latham and his sons Otway and Grey. The staged fight had been filmed on the roof of Madison Square Garden. The boxers were known as 'Young Griffo' and 'Battling Barnett'. When asked by son Otway Latham whether a scene could be projected on a screen like in the Kinetoscope parlours, father Woodville answered, "You can project anything on a screen that you can see with the naked eye and which can be photographed."
    One month earlier to this event, the Latham men showed off their Eidolscope. The scenes were of children and one man smoking his pipe. The Eidolscope was a co-invention between Woodville Latham and William Dickson. Some commentators however have attributed the Eidolscope to one Eugene Lauste.

Source: Encyclopedias
                                                                                                         
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/1937/The-Lathams-Build-a-Projector.html

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