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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939.

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Little By Little

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Herr Hitler's Danzig plans are

as is generally suspected-that is,

a process of little by e-It may

that The

be dificult for Poland to decide the precise moment at which her rights have been infringed substantially and her independence compromised. It night be contended that moment has already come. pouring of German troops, however disguised, and German material of war into the Free City is certainly an infringement of its Statue. The Nazis deny that any such movements are taking place, but past experience justifies rejection of any assurances from that quarter.

that

By whatever means the German Government seeks to obtain a grip Or the city-und that is patently the Fuhrer's predominant purpose at the moment--it is clear that would mean a strangle-hold on Po- land. A position would be created which she could not tolerate if she valued her continued independence.

Danzig is a speciat ease, to which | arguments of self-determination, which Herr Hitler likes to introduce when they suit his purpose, do not apply. The Polish corridor may be an artificial arrangement, but it and the Danzig outlet to the world are deemed essential to the well-being of the Polish State, just as Polish trude is essential to the well-being of Danzig. The British and French guarantees imply a continuance of the present status, and any scheme to impair it, however ingenious or oblique that selgme 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 aid. The Fuhrer must now see this clearly. With his desire dominate be combines a large men- sure of caution, and he should know that this time there can be no Berch- tesgaden, Godesberg or Munich.

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Democratic statesmen have learned a great deal about Nazi anethods and purposes since then, and are well aware thal further concessions to force are unthinkable.

Propaganda

THE word "propaganda" has an evli 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 newe- paper in which propaganda is men- tioned,

Is in this evil sense, as It is invention of the Father of Lies. It is pointed out, however, propogando, to be effective, must be something more, something better thon organised lying. It must have constructive idea to nil- Gospel,

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is contending. It is necessary. for anyone who intends to employ pro- paganda that he have first a well- thought-out polley, and, secondly, adhere to it

it in his actions.

This may seem a hard saying to those whose iden of propaganda is to answer los with lea. But sooner or later the public weary of reading official announcements devised to misicad them and which they have learned to suspect. In a long war they come to know the difference be-i tween propaganda, In the bad sense, and information. You cannot clo ceive all the people, all the time.

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Father of films died a poor man scribble

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MERICA is a friendly BY G. LESLIE everywhere the inventor went he

nation of friendly people, as our King. and Queen can testify.

So

CARTER

debt because he had not the com-

it behoves nobody-least of he died in 1921, went to jail for all myself to be nasty to mercial instincts of Edison and the Americans.

The trouble concerns a man called Edison. Edison, you will remember, invented good many things. They included the phonograph ("Edison Bell Record!"), and he also dab- bled in the cinema world.

It is this dabbling of his that is troubling a good many people In Britain to-day, for it was 50 years ago, that the master patent for the world of cinematography was filed, and it was tot Edison who fled ft.

But that fact does not matter to Americans. To celebrate the golden Jubilee of films, Hollywood is plan- ning an epic 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 at Bristol In 1055.

It is odd that Hollywood is ignoring him, for if over a man had a fe story that was worth Alming, it was Friese Greene. It is not in easy success that you And the most human stories, but in the trials and adversities that men have to mect and overcome.

And Friese Greene, who should have been a millionaire by the time

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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 Alm trade, at least, recognised that Greene was the man who had made their living possible, A banquet Was Elven at the Connaught Rooms to which he was invited. In the middle of speech, and at a time when there was a possibility of his at last making a commercial success of his life, ho sat down in his chair and was dead before aid could be brought,

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That is the brief outine of the tragle 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 policeman-an astonished and auspicious police- man who was dragged off his beat In Holborn, ou a day just before the invention was patented, into Number

Twenty, Brook-street. There an elated 34-year-old man- Friese Greene-amazed him by showing him moving pictures of people walking about at flyde Park Corner!

The first display of this inven- tion was given to the Photographle Convention at Chester in 1800, and

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was congratulated. But his ntien- tion to the scientific side of his work had caused him to neglect the commercial angle.

And he was sent to Brixton Prison for debt. All his effects were sold up. including his apparatus. He was so disheartened

that it was 1892 before he could

find courage to make a fresh start.

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at meals?

TEALTIME was over. Ex- Mcept for myself the res-

taurant was empty and a waiter was clearing the tables and re- moving the tablecloths.

and

He rolled them up one by one and threw them into a large basket which he wheeled from You will find no mention of

table to Fricac Greene in the section deal-which he studied for a moment, then tuble. Suddenly he came to a cloth ing with the development of the folded rather carefully Am in the Encyclopædia Britan- under his arm. nica, It simply tells you that in August, 1889, a man called East- man began making strip aim which Edison heard about.

It was just what he needed to continue the Engilshman's work. For remember Greene's patent was fted in June of that year.

Bays the Encyclopedia (did you know that it is mainly an Ameri- can production?) "The demon- stration of the Edison kinetoscope | at West Orange, N.J., on October 0, 1989, with a strip of Eastman film made the motion picture an ac- complished fact."

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I called him to me on the pretext of paying my bill and asked him why he had treated that cloth dif

ferently from the others. He smiled

had said:

"Oh, this one? I must show it to the patron, he keeps a note, and often photographs the writings on tablecloths.

"People do not realise the things they write and draw with their pencils on tablecloths," he explained. think they actually draw some- times without knowing they are do- ing it. I've been a waiter for 30 years, but I've never seen so many Lablecloths with drawings on them as we have had lately.

It continues, a little later, to say that in 1804 several machines were

"There have always been tabic- cloth artists and just plain 'doodlers." exported: "From these machines the English and European develop-Some of the great performers have ment of the motion that "Edison's Invention was not sprang." And then adds, unkindly

protected by patents abroad."

Probably the biggest debt that the industry owes to Friese Greene holes in the film. They, more than was the invention of the little

anything else. made the moving pleture possible, for they provide the positive movement of the strip of pictures before the projection apparatus.

By Lichty funds to allow him to commercial-

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"Tell him we won't cancel' his order immediately--ho'll have

to wait his turn.'

been the

een the celebrities. Caruso used to draw beautiful girls in

dancing. frocks performing superlative steps.

"Chaliupin drew caricatures of himself in all sorts 'of moods and sketches of society beauties pouting when he refused to go to supper with them. Gigli docs caricatures, and, of course, some of Augustus John's table works have been fromed and sold,"

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I gathered from this serious-minded waiter 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 "doddies" Jail, and had he had sufflelent of great folk but in the trend of tablecloth drawing and its enormous Iso his apparatus. protected by increase in recent months, world patents, he would have made Geography, map-making, and the this country the home of the in- enlculation of armed forces seem to dustry and a huge fortune for him-be the most popular works just now. self. But, being English, ho muddied through.

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From other restaurants the Savoy. to the smallest Italian ristorante in Solio 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

aud their

strong views on the European Jungle scem to need graphic illustration.

Now we come to an odd fact. Despite the efforts of Hollywood to Ignore him, of his ridiculous treat-map-conscious, ment by the editors of the Ency elopædia, offelally Amarica gards him as the inventor of the Ulm. For in 1010 he went to the Btates us witness in a case before the United States Circuit Court. This is only a phase of tablecloth The Court ruled that the patent art. But the waiter convinced me of. W. Friese Greene, No. 10131, of June 21, 1080, was the master patent of the world for cinemato- graphy, thus rendering subsequent patents taken out by T. A. Edison 1903 for a similar procesa null and vold.

The original inventions and patents taken out by Greene must All a goodly space in the Patents Ofee. Beside the original patent

For the first time since. they left. school they know and can draw the outlines of frontiers which were only vague lines to them before.

for

ordinary

that if one were to collect the efoths for a year-and I have launderers" ns well as walters' word for it-one could glean quite an interesting side- light on the year's events, apart from obtaining a wealth of examples of psychological repression and frustra- ilon which would keep any keen Freudian, enraptured.

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MY waiter friend disappeared for a few moments and ro- 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 'films.

wash," he said, "but it's already been Yet. sadly enough, there had to photographed. It is a perfect map be a pubile 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 acting memorial over his grave in Berlin un In that corner?" Highgate Cemetery.

Richard Greenough

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