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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1989.'

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Little By Little

TF Herr Hier's Danzig plans are

IF

as is generally suspected—that is,

a process of little by little-it may

be diflicult for Poland to decide the

precise moment at which her rights have been infringed substantially and her Independence compromised.

Do

you

died a poor man scribble

A

MERICA is a friendly BY G. LESLIE

nation of friendly

people, as our King

It might be contended that that and Queen can testify.. So

moment has already

come.

The

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 assuraneos from that quarter.

By whatever means the German Government, secks to obtain a grip ол the city-and that is patently the Fuhrer's predominant purpose at the moment-it is

clear that that

would mean a strangle-hold on Po- tond. A position would be created which she could not tolerato if she valued her continued Independence.

Danzig is a special case, to which arguments of self-determination, which Herr Hitler likes to introduce when they suit his purpose, do not upply. The Polish corridor may be an arilficial arrangement, but it and the Danzig outlet to the world are deemed essential to the well-being of the Polish State, just us Polish trade is essential to the well-being of Danzip. The British and French guarantees imply a continuance of the present status, and any scheme to impair it, however ingenious or oblique that scheme may be, is bound to be resisted.

On Poland wil rest the respon- sibility of deciding when, if at all, it is necessary to Intervene. Then her allies would go automatically to her ald. The Fuhrer must now see this clearly. With his desire to dominate he combines a large mea- sure of caution, and he should know that this time there can be no Berch- tesgaden, Godesberg or Munich,

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

Propaganda

bas 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- Uoned. It is in this evil sense, as on invention of the Father of Lies.

THE word "propaganda"

It is poluted out, however, that propagando, to be effective, must ba Bomething more, something better than organised lying. It must have a gospel, a constructive idea to ad- Vance. The missionary preaching Christianity does not hope to succeed enly by running down the religions er, devil worships against which he is contending. It is necessary for anyone who intends to employ pro- paganda that he have first a well- thought-out policy, and, secondly, adhere to In his actions.

to

This may seem a hard saying to those whose idea of propaganda is to answer lies with lies. But sooner or later the public weary of reading

Melal announcements devised mislead them and, which they have. leurned to suspect. In a long war they come to know the difference be- tween propaganda. In the bad sense, and Information. You cannot de- ceive all the people all the time.

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 a good many things. They included the phonograph ("Edison Bell Record!"), and he also dab- bied 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 not Edison who fled It.

But that fact does not matter to Americans. To celebrate the golden Jubilee of Alms, Hollywood is plan- ning an eple 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 filled 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 1855.

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

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.

Was

nt

Then, after the war, the British Alm trade, at least, recognised that Greene was the man who had made their living possible. A banquet

given

the Connaught Rooms to which he was invited. In the middle of a speech, and at a time when there was 1 possibility of his at last making a commercial success of his life, he sat down in his chair and was dead before aid 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 policeman-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-atrect. There an elated 34-year-old man-- Friese Groene-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 nt Chester in 1890, and

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

PRI

“Tell him we won't cancel his order immediately-he'll have to wait his turn.”

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 Prison for debt. All his effects were sold ur, apparatus. He was so disheartened that it was 1802 before he could find courage to make a fresh start.

at meals?

EALTIME was over.

Ex.

Mcept for myself the res

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

You will and no mention of Friese Greene in the section deal ing with Um development of the Alm in the Encyclopædia Britan- nica. It almply tells you that in August, 1889, a man called East- man began making strip num

which Edison heard about.

It was just what he needed to continue the Englishman's work. For remember Greene's patent was

He rolled them up one by one and threw them into a large basket which he wheeled from table to table. Suddenly he came to a cloth which he studied for u moment, then folded rather carefully and put,

under his arm.

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 li to

the patron, he keeps a note, and often photographs the writings on

Wed in June of that year,

Says the Encyclopædła (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, 1889, with a strip of Eastman film made the motion picture an ac- complished fact."

ment

It continues. a little later, to say that in 1894 several machines were exported: "From these machines the English and European develop-

of the

picture motion sprang." And then adds, unkindly. that Edison's invention was not protected by patents abroad.”

Probably the biggest debt that the industry owes to Friese Greene was the invention of the little holes in the film. They, more than anything else. made the moving picture possible, for they provide the positive movement of the strip of pictures before the projection apparatus.

"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- walter for 30 ing it. I've been years, but I've never seen so many tablecloths with drawings on them as we have had lately.

"There have always been table- cloth artists and just plain 'doodlers." Some of the great performers have been

the celebrities. Caruso used to draw beautiful girls in duncing frocks performing superlative steps.

"Challapin drew

of caricatures himself in

in all suris moods and sketches of society beauties pouling when he refused to go to supper with them. Gigit does caricatures, and, of course, some of Augustus John's table works have been framed und sold,"

BUT I

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tablecloth drawing and its enormous increase in recent mentha.

this gathered from serious-minded wafter 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" Jail, and had he had sufficient of great folk but in the trend of funds to allow him to commercial- ise his apparatus, protected by world patents, he would have mado this country the home of the in- dustry and a huge fortune for him- self. But. being. English, ho muddied through.

Geography, and the

forces seem to

calculation of .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. Now we come to an odd fact, IL seems that people, particularly since last September, have become

and Despite the efforts of Hollywood to

their strong map-conscious, Ignore him; of his ridiculous treat views on the Europeon Jungle seem ment by the editors of the Ency-

to need graphic illustration. clopædia, ofejally. America re- For the first time since they left gards him as the inventor of the

school

they know and can draw the Alm. For in 1910 he went to the outlines of frontiers which were only. States as a witness in a case before vague lines to them before. the United States Circuit Court. This is only a, phase of tablecloth The Court ruled that the patent art. But the walter convinced me of W. Friese Greene. No. 10131. of that if one were to collect the cloths June 21, 1889, was the master for a year-and I have launderers' as, well as walters word for it-one patent of the world for cinemato-

could glean quite an interesting side- graphy, thus rendering subsequent light on the year's events, apart from patents taken out by T. A Edison obtaining a wealth of examples of in 1903 for a similar process null and vold.

psychological repression and frustra The original inventions and Freudian enraptured.

tion which would Keep any keen

patents taken out by Greene must fill a goodly space in the Patents

.

Omce. Beside the original patent MY waiter friend disappeared

stereoscóple films,

to thi

for a few moments and re- for 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

wash," he said, "but it's already been Yet, sadly enough, there had to photographed. It a perfect map be 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 atting mémorial over his grave in Berlin up in that corner?" Highgate Cemetery.

Richard Greenough

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