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"STRUBE" IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"
WHO
IS THE MAN STARTED IT ALL, 50 YEARS AGO
ALWAYS feel a little
sheepish when I cite film millions in stories. Film millions aren't real. They are an invention as gay in their way as Old Vienna.
to compulsory military train- ing the question was al once | asked by Labour men? Why not
conscription simultaneous wealth? The answer was that wealth is already subject to conscription in the form of severe taxation, and that mea- sures are being taken, and fur-whenever I remember that the But film money becomes real ther measures are to be taken, man who invented moving pic- to prevent war profiteering.. tures collapsed and died at a
the The same question may well meeting at
Connaught arise in Hongkong if and when Rooms in London in May 1921, conditions here necessitate the at which he made an appeal to all branches of the industry to full application of the conscrip- puil themselves together and tion legislation, and doubtless combine to work for the com- the same generalised and some mon good. He left the platform what vague answer will be forth and walked back to his scat,
and died, coming.
After they had carried him away and the shock of such a tragedy had itself naturally into the
The most satisfactory and the most obvious preventive men- turned sure is that of restricting Gov-ritual of respect we pay men who are briefly dead, they turned out his packets and found that he had 38. 10d.; and that was all he had in the world.
He
invented movies...
by Paul Holt
IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"
apparatus for recording Hertzian waves, which sounds strangely like radio to me (although rudio did not hit the public car and conselence properly until 1921, the year he died.
The spring of 1900 he was busy
with all the time
paper. 1 don't know why paper fascinated him so, but out of his seventy-four in- ventions fifteen had to do with it. He keeps on coming back to it.
the
But in July 1900 he broke away. All at once he goes down to the Patent Office and registers his con- problem of the tribution to electrical transmission of images.
Of course, with any other man I would be content to say that what the tele- he was after there Wils photo system now used largely by newspapers. But, of course, cleven years before that he had invented the principle of moving pictures, so I don't have much doubt that what he meant in 1900 was television.
The thing was on his mind unti he when April the following year, registered another television patent, He was of and then he forgot it. on explosives. A fortnight later he ernment payments to contrac
He left the William Foxes, the Sem able articles. In 1883 It was pano was back on his pet motive power. tors. It is claimed in Englund
Goldwyns, the David Wark Grifiths ramic views. In 1805 he was light He had an office in Holborn, bo !! to ploneer their several ways Into ing cigars, pipes by his own special wasn't far to the Patent Office, and
what that this is already done by 11
your hearts while he went on invent- process (I wonder
that one I don't suppose he even bothered to w1.5 Willom
was).
use the horse-bus, careful checking of costs when H Frien Greene, he was a ing things.
In 1806, 1807 and a part of 1808 contracts are made, and the native of Bristol, and lived most of
HAVE a list of his inven- he was fussing around with games,
ROUND 1900 his fertile tlons here in front of me. explosives, but in 1899 he really got A mind couldn't cope with recent formation of a Ministry his fe in Sussex.Recently was cele of Supply ought to facilitate the brated the fiftieth anniversary of his He registered seventy-four patents in down to it with a patent registered his new ideas. He didn't just say: invention of moving pictures. June thirty-two years. He started modest on March 23, which he called "Let's have an electrical airplane"; he sat right down and drew the task. But even so it is admitted 21, 1889, when he was thirty-four, ly. After Inventing the cinema in blandly: Obtaining motive power.
He skirted neatly around the plans for such a conveyance and got that there will be loopholes he registered Patent No. 19,131 as June 1839 (because he thought it
Apparatus for Taking would fit in nicely with the gramo- philosopher's stone that year and his little ticket to say he was the through which armament firms
Rapid Series." phone), he concentrated the next went on to cartridges, paper, inkless first man to do so. may make more than they should
Thus, In December 1800, he had called
an idea for an air-car. Thomas Edison tricity. do; and it is to meet such leakage
Interested in developing some-
that he was It isn't clear even that the Government is propus thing be called the phonograph, and
satisfied with that one himself, al- ing to levy a certain standard, in his real interest was to register his
though he was a sanguine man, be-
eighteen
months later was basically the the case of firms which are process-which receiving not less than £200,000 principle of the shutter that clicks up into sec- and splits movement a year under armament con-
tions that can be reproduced to waltz tracts.
with the speed of light to the eye- send it to Edison and ask him if he couldn't tie that up with his recorded
oto in
He had heard, about that time, year on a meter for measuring elec- printing and obtaining more molive
that
a mon
Was
sound.
So did
The question is reasonably asked, why confine the tax to
You see, in 1880 William Friese- large firms, and why not take all the profits in excess of a certain Greene had the idea of the talkies.
Edison
wasn't much interested. standard? If actual war were declared no doubt the full toll Later he himself registered much the same procces as Friese-Greene's, would be taken, and the tax and history has given him the credit would not be confined to arma-for the invention of this great enter
admitted ment firms but applied to all tainment form. But he
bo diod that the industries. But there is much himself before
Englishman was there first. to be said for not putting the the New York courts in 1910, when whole industry of the country on Friese-Greene went over to testify. a war-time footing until it be-
To O-DAY the great film In- comes absolutely necessary; to
dustry that he made pos- do so would be to limit initiative sible fifty years ago to the day is and restrain the development of united in all its component parts,
and it is angry. trade.
The British Treasury think that The measure now contemplat-films are so prosperous they can be ed probably goes as far as is wise taxed some more, and Mr. Friese- in time of peace. What really Greene's industry is determined to matters. is that it should be use a. the powers of advertising. Press and screen propaganda to tell faithfully carried out, and that Sir John Simon how wrong he is. there should be no evasions. They are so busy at this innocent The conditions require unending business that they have completely that, vigilance. They are those of forgotten that to-day is a day that decently, they should be celebrating. peace which is not peace, of war There so much that la glorious which is not war. So far as
and
past that they should recognise there is peace, trade requires and so much that is horrible clasticity and freedom from may never come. They have 4,000
out in trailers
the propaganda exacting restraints. So far as
cinemas and a lot else to make sure there is war, there must be con- that it never does come. If you go trol from top to bottom. These to any cinema to-night you will are the two conflicting needs notice. which as far as possible have to be reconciled.
that
Of course, the real reason for this seeming ingratitude is that Friese- Greene never became one of them.
power.
In 1802 he was preserving perish-
That
year, 100,
he
had DI
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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“Oh, just tio some of the luggage on the running-board--these autograph albums simply have to go`in a safe place!"
Causc
he cracked in two inventions hard on of each other and he called each top one AIRSHIP. Patent numbers are 16,000 and 25,505.
was
the man
Sometime then he must have re- membered that he who invented the cinema, because there is a list of seven fim inven- tions in direct sequence, starting in March 1900, and keeping up evenly, about three inventions to the year, until 1913.
THAT
and
THAT was just the time that Hollywood was being founded. David Wark Grifth and Carl Lacmmic
William Fox were charging around in the Call- fornian sunshine chasing cops and
ladies hustling lite old
Over the
William Friese-Greene heard about this, was probably glad that some fool had finally decided to commer- clalise his invention, and invented some more along the same lines.
It didn't do him any good, though. to New They sent for him to go York in 1910, when the great fim monopoly case was going on, and hir evidence (I have a report of it in front of me) broke the great movle ring
And clearly established bis claim to the master patent.
He didn't get any money out of It, though. He didn't have any part of those fantastic fortunes that were made in those early days, before the gentlemen of Wall-street with their Striped bags and pink carnations de elded they could out-crook the wild men of Hollywood,
II/ILLIAM FRIESE-GREENE
WI came home and got into
debt and went to prison and came PLEASE Turn To Page 5.
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