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Little By Little
TF Herr Hitler's Danzig plans are
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as is generally suspected-tbat is,
a proces, of little by Hitle...it may
be dimeul for Poland to decide the Precise moment at which her rights have been infringed substantially and her independence compromised. It might be contended that that moment has already come. The pouring of German troops, however
films
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you
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MERICA is a friendly BY G. LESLIE
nation of friendly
people, as our King
and Queen can testify.
So
CARTER
it behoves nobody-least of he died in 1921, went to jall for disguised, and German material of all myself to be nasty to mercial instincts of Edison and
war into the Free City is certainly an infringement of its Statue. The Nazia deny that any such movements are taking place, but past experience justifies rejection of any assurances from that quarter.
on
the Americans.
The trouble concerns a man called Edison. Edison, you will remember, invented a good many things. They included the phonograph ("Edison Bell Record"), and he also dub- bled in the cinema world.
It is this dabbling of his that is troubling a good many people in Britain to-day, for that
was 50 years
By whatever means the German Government seeks to obtain a grip the city-and that is patently the Fuhrer's predominant purpose at the nment-it is clear that would mean a strangle-hold on 10- land. A position would be created which she could not tolerato if she valued her continued independence.
Danzig lu a upecial case, to which arguments of self-determination, which Herr Hiller likes to introduco when they suit his purpose, do not upply. The Polish corridor may be on artificial arrangement, but it and the Danzig outlet to the world are deemed essential to Ure well-being of the Polish State, just as Polish trade is essential. to the well-being of Danzig. The British Batt French guarantees imply cuutinuance of the present status, and any scheme to impale it, however ingenious or | oblique that scheme may be, Is bound
to be resisted.
On Poland will rest the respon- sibility of deciding when, if at all, it is necessary to Intervene. Then her alles would go automatically to her ald. The Fuhrer must now see this clearly. With his desire dominate he combines a large mea- sure of caution, and be should know that this time there can be no Berch- tesgaden, Godesberg or Munich,
to
Democratic statesmen have learned a great deal about Nazi methods and purposes since then, and are well aware that urller concessions to force ere unthinkable.
Propaganda
THE
THE word "propaganda". has un 'evil odour, because it is general- ly understood to mean the dissemina tion of falsehoods Intended to mis- lead an enemy or to corrupt persons who might otherwise remain neutral or. become opponents. In almost every speech recorded in this news- paper in which propaganda is men- tioned, it is in this evli sense, as an invention of the Father of Lies.
It is pointed out, however, that propaganda, to be effective, must be something more, something better than organised lying. It must have a gospel, પ constructive idea to ad- Vanco. The missionary preaching Christianity does not hope to succeed only by running down the religions or devil worships against which he is contending. It is necessary anyone who intends to employ pro- paganda that he have first a well- thought-out policy, and, secondly, adhere to it in his actions.
for
to
This may seem a hard saying to those wiidse idea of propaganda is to answer lies with lies. But sooner or later die public weary of reading official announcements devised mislead them and which they have learned to suspect. In a long war they come to know the difference be-, tween propagaridn, In the bad sense, and formation. You cannot de- ceive-all-the-people all the time.
ago, that the master patent for the world of cinematography was fled, and it was not Edison who fled it.
But that fact does not matter to Americans. To celebrate the golden Jubilee of films, Hollywood is plan- ning an epla which will tell the history of the cinema. And old man Edison will be cast as the Father of the Film.
This is very unkind of Holly- wood, for the man who fled the patent, and the man who did all the ground work, and was followed by. Mr. Edison and others, was W. Friese Greene, a thorough English- man, who was born ut Bristol in 1055.
It is odd that Hollywood Is ignoring him, for if ever a man had a life story that was worth filming, it was Friese Greene. It is not in easy success that you find the most human stories, but in the trials and adversities that men have to meet and overcome.
And Friese Greene, who should have been a millionaire by the time
debt because he had not the com-
those who were behind him."
Greene had not even the money to obtain an extension of his patent, so it became a gift to the world when it lapsed, and the in- ventor saw others making money of which he could not touch a penny.
Then, after the war, the British film trade, at least, recognised that Greene was the man who had made their living possible. A banquet was given at the Connaught Rooms to which he was invited. In the middle of a speech, and at a time when there was a possibility of his at last making a commercial success of his life, he sat down in his chair and was dend before ald could be brought.
.
That is the brief outline of the tragic life of the man whose name should be as well known to-day as that of Edison. And who has heard of it?
The first cinema "audience" in this world was a paliceman-an astonished and suspicious police- man who was dragged off his beat in Holborn, on a day just before the invention was patented, into Number Twenty, Brook-street. There an clated 34-year-old man- Friese Greene-amazed him by showing him moving pictures of people walking about at Hyde Park Corner!
The first display of this inven- tion was given to the Photographic Convention at Chester In 1880, and
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everywhere the inventor went he was congratulated. But his atten- tion to the scientific side of his work had caused him to neglect the commercial angle.
And he was sent to Brixton
at meals?
TEALTIME was over.
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Ex-
Prison for debt. Ali his effects cept for myself the res- wert sold up. Including hlstaurant was empty and a waiter apparatus. He was so disheartened was clearing the tables and re- that it was 1802 before he could moving the tablecloths.
find courage to make a fresh start.
He rolled them up one by one and throw them into A Jutge "baskel which he wheeled from table to table. Suddenly he came to a cloth which he studied for a moment, then folded rather carefully and put under his arin.
I called him to me on the pretext. of paying my bill and asked him why he had treated that cloth dif- He smiled ferently from the others. had said:
You will find no mention of Friese Greene in the section deal- ing with the development of the film in the Encyclopædia Britan- nica. It simply tells you that in August, 1800, a man called East- man began making strip film which Edison heard about,
It was just what he needed to continue the Englishman's work. For remember Greene's patent was aled in June of that year.
Bays the Encyclopædia (did you } tablecloths. know that it is mainly an Ameri- | can production?); "The demon- stration of the Edison kinetoscope at West Orange, NJ., on October 6, 1880, with a strip of Eastman aim made the motion picture an ac- complished fact."
"Oh, this one? I must show it to the patron, he keeps a note, and. often photographs the writings on
"People do not realise the things they write and draw with their pencils on tablecloths," he explained. "I think they actually draw some- times without knowing they are do ing it. I've been walter for 30 years, but I've never seen so many tablecloths with drawings on them as we have had lately.
It continues, a lttle later, to say that in 1804 several machines were
"There have always been table- exported: From these machines cloth artists and just plain 'doodlers.' the English and European develop-Some of the great performers have ment of the motion picture been the celebrities. Caruso used to sprang." And then adds, unkindly. draw beautiful girls in dancinit that "Edison's invention was not frocks performing superlative steps.
Chaliapin
drew caricatures of protected by patents abroad."
Probably the biggest debt that himself in all sorts of moods and ----- the industry owes to Friese Greene sketches of society beauties pouting when he refused to go to supper with was the invention of the little holes in the film. They, more than
them. Gigli does caricatures, and, of course, some of Augustus John's anything else. made the moving table works have been framed and picture possible, for they provide sold." the positive movement of the strip of pictures before the projection apparatus
BUT
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申
I gathered from
this
serious-minded waller that
It is safe to assume that if the he and his patron had been chiefly Englishman had not been sent to interested not only in the "doddles'
the trend of jail, and had he had sufficient of great folk but in
By Lichty funds to allow him to commercial tablecloth drawing and ita chormous
PRI
"Tell him we won't cancel his erdor immediately-ho'll have
to walt his turn.
isc
this country the home of the in- dustry and a huge fortune for him- self. But, being English, ho muddled through.
his apparatus, protected by Increase in recent months. world patents, he would have calculation of armed forces seem to Geography, map-making, and the be the most popular works Just now. From other restaurants the Savoy to the smallest Italian ristorante in Soho-even where the tablecloths are, perhaps wisely, made of paper, I gathered the same information.
It seems that people, particularly since last September, have become and their strong
views on the European jungle seem
school they know and can draw the outlines of frontiers which were only vague lines to them before.
Now we come to an odd fact. Despite the efforts of Holywood to Ignore him, of his ridiculous treat-map-conscious ment by the editors of the Ency- to need graphic illustration. clopedia, omciaily America ro- For the first time since they left gards him as the inventor of the film. For in 1910 he went to the Btates as a witness in a case before the United States Circuit Court.
The Court ruled that the patent of W. Friese Greene, No. 10131, of June 21, 1880. was the master patent of the world for cinemato- graphy, thus rendering subsequent patents taken out by T. A. Edison in 1008 for a similar process null and vojd.
The original inventions and patents taken out by Greene must fill a goodly space in the Patents
This is only a phase of tablecloth art. But the walter convinced me Chat if one were to collect the cloths for a year-and I have launderers' as well as waiters' word for it one could glean quite an interesting side- light on the year's events, apart from abtaining a wealth of examples of psychological repression and frustra- tion which would keep any keem Freudion
enraptured. *
office. Beside the original patent MY waiter friend disappeared
for
for ទ few moments and re- ordinary black-and-white turned with a broad grin on his face cinematography, he also held the and a tablecloth on his arm." master patents for colour and "A pity to send this one to the stereoscople Allmis.
wash," he said, "but it's already been Yet, sadly enough, there had to photographed. It is a perfect map ve a public subscription to bury of Ireland: but why on earth did him when he died. You will find a they put Prague in the middle and fitting memorial over his grave in Berlin up in that corner?" Highgate Cemetery.
Richard Greenough.
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