The digital camera could possibly be fitted with three, 4, eight, nine, sixteen or more lenses and was illustrated with sixteen lenses in the patent documents. The images had been to be recorded as negatives on a pair of delicate movies, stored on two lower drums and mechanically transported with out interruption to 2 upper drums, past lenses and successively operated shutters. The sensitive film might be “an infinite sheet of insoluble gelatine coated with bromide emulsion or any handy prepared-made fast-performing paper, such as Eastman’s paper movie”.
Actor Lon Chaney, meanwhile, virtually singlehandedly kept American horror afloat, with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Monster,” which set the stage for the Universal dominance of the ’30s. On Saturday, April 14, 1894, a refined version of Edison’s Kinetoscope started industrial operation for entertainment functions. The flooring-standing, box-like viewing system was mainly a bulky, coin-operated, … Read More