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Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitascope
    "Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images via film and electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images. The images being cast are originally taken by a kinetoscope mechanism onto gelatin film. Using an intermittent mechanism, the film negatives produced up to fifty frames per second. The shutter opens and closes to reveal new images. This device can produce up to 3,000 negatives per minute.[1] With the original Phantoscope and before he partnered with Armat, Jenkins displayed the earliest documented projection of a filmed motion picture in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana.
    Armat independently sold the Phantoscope to The Kinetoscope Company. The company realized that their Kinetoscope would soon be a thing of the past with the rapidly advancing proliferation of early cinematic engineering. By 1897, just two years after the Vitascope was first demonstrated, the technology was being nationally adopted. Hawaii and Texas were among the first to incorporate the Vitascope into their picture shows."

Pete Seeger at Library of Congress Bicentennial (LOC)

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  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • KaCey97078 said:
    Love his music...
  • Jim Mitchell said:
    An American treasure.
  • Przemyslaw Stroinski said:
    what exactly color negative?
  • EspressoBuzz said:
    Great pic.
  • Paul VanDerWerf said:
    Superb. I have some photos of him in Beacon a few years back. His voice was not strong so in his style made us all sing with and for him.

Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
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    Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
  • David Valenzuela said:
    It's a shame my mother in law passed away a few years ago she might have like to have seen these Fox Theater Pics she actually lived in Bakersfield for a time long before I was born.
  • David Valenzuela said:
    I was in Bakersfield once but never saw the Theater of course I only stop on the outskirts of the town.

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