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THIS
A CHANGING ACT IN THE FAR EAST THEATRE
"STRUBE" IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"
IS
THE
MAN
WHO
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.
He
invented movies...
Paul Holt
by Paul
apparalus for recording Hertzion waves, which sounds strangely like radio to me (although radio did not hit the public eur and conscience properly until 1921, the year died. >
he
The spring of 1000 he was busy all the time with paper. I don't know why paper fascinated him so, but out of his seventy-four in- ventions fifteen had to do with i
to He
it. keeps as coming back But in July 1900 he broke away. All at once he goes down to the Patent Office and registers his con- tribution to the problem of the electrical transmission of images.
blom
Of course, with any other man I would be content to say that what Was the tele- he was after there photo system now used largely by newspapers.
But, of course, eleven
years before that he had invented the principle of moving pictures, so
I don't have much doubt that what meant in 1900 was television.
he
to compulsory military train- ing the question was at onee asked by Labour men: Why not. simultaneous conscription of wealth? The answer was that wealth is already subject to conscription in the form of severe taxation, and that mea-
But film money becomes real sures are being taken, and fur-whenever I remember that the ther measures are to be taken. man who invented moving pic- to prevent war profiteering, tures collapsed and died at a nt the Corinaught The same question may well meeting arise in Hongkong if and when Rooms in London in May 1921, conditions here necessitate theat which he made an appeal to all branches of the industry to full application of the conscrip- pull 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 The most satisfactory and the and the shock of such a tragedy had naturally Into the most obvious preventive mea- turned itself sure is that of restricting Gov-ritun of respect we pay men who ernment payments to contrac-pockets and found that he had 1s. He left the William Foxes, the Sam able articles. In 1893 it was pano was back on his pet molive power. tors. It is claimed in England 106; and that was all he had in the Goldwyns, the David Wark Grimths ramic views. In 1895 he was light- He had an office in Holborn, so it
world.
to pioneer their several ways into ing cigars, pipes by his own special wasn't far to the Patent Office, and that this is already done by อ
what TIS
William your hearts while he went on invent- process (I wonder
that one I don't suppose he even bothered to name was
ing things. careful checking of costs when
Friese-Greene, he was a
In 1809, 1897 and a part of 1898 contracts are made, and the native of Bristol, and lived most of
1906 his fertile HAVE a list of his inven- he was fussing around with games, AROUND
mind couldn't cope with tions here in front of me, explosives, but in 1809 he really got recent formation of a Ministry his life in Sussex.Recently was cele- of Supply ought to facilitate the brated the Aftieth 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 21, 1889, when he was thirty-four, y. After inventing the cinema in blandly: Obtaining motive power. he registered Patent No. 19,131 as June 1080 (because he thought it He skirted neatly around "proved Apparatus for Taking would fit in nicely with the graino- philosopher's stone that year, and his little ticket to say he was the the plans for such a conveyance and got Photographs in Rapid Series." phone), he concentrated the next went on to cartridges, paper, Inkless first man to do so.
He had heard, about that time, year on a meter for measuring clee printing and obtaining more motive that
a man called Thomas Edison tricity.
power. was interested in developing some
year, too, he had an thing he called the phoncgraph, and his real interest was to register · is
was basically are process which
principle of the shutter that clicks and splits movement up into sec- tions that can be reproduced to waltz with the speed of light to the eye-- Bend It to Edison and ask him if he
task.
But even so it is admitted that there will be loopholes through which armament firms may make more than they should do; and it is to meet such leakage that the Government is propos- ing to levy a certain standard, in the case of firms which receiving not less than £200,000 a year under armament Con- tracts.
are briefly dead, they turned out his
the
The question is reasonably couldn't tle that up with his recorded asked, why confine the tax
to sound. large firms, and why not take all
You see, in 1880 William Friese- the profits in excess of a certain Greene had the idea of the talkies. standard? If actual war were Edison wasn't much interested, much declared no doubt the full toll Later he himself registered
the same process as Friese-Greene's, would be taken, and the tax and history has given
the credit would not be confined to arma- for the invention of this
enter- great But he admitted ment firms but applied to all tainment form. industries. But there is much bimself before he died that the Englishman was there first. So did
hirn
to be said for not putting the the New York courts in 1010, when whole industry of the country on | Friesc-Greene went over to testify.
a war-time footing until it be-
comes absolutely necessary; to
TO-DAY the great film in-
dustry that he made pos-
parts,
do so would be to limit initiative sible fifty years ago to the day is and restrain the development of united in all s component
and it is angry. trade.
The measure now contemplat-alms are sa prosperous they
The British Treasury think that 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 all 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 vigilance. They are those of forgotten that to-day is a day that, peace which is not peace, of war decently, they should be celebrating.
is so much that is 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 that elasticity and freedom from may never come. They have 4,000
trailers out in exacting restraints. So far us and a lot else to make sure
duemas there is war, there must be con- that it never does come. If you go will trol from top to bottom. These to any cinema to-night you are the two conflicting needs notice. which as far as possible have to seeming ingratitude is that Fricac
Of course, the real reason for this be reconciled.
Greene never became one of them.
the
IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"
In 1803 he was preserving perish-
was).
That
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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"Oh, just tie somo of the luggage on the running-board--thesa 'autograph albuma simply have to go in a safe place!”
The thing was on his mind until April the following year, w
When registered another television patent. and then he forgot it. He was off on explosives. A fortnight later he
use the horse-bus.
Thus, in December 1903, he had an idea for an air-cur.
that he was even It Isn't clear satisfed with that one himself, al- though he was a sanguine man, be- months later he cause
eighteen cracked in two inventions hard on
top
of each other and he called cach one
AIRSHIP. Patent numbers are 10,600 and 25,595.
was
Sometime then he must have re- membered that he
the man who invented the cinema, because there is a list of seven Alm Inven- tions in direct sequence, starting in March 1009, and keeping up evenly,. about three inventions to the year, until 1013.
THAT was just the time that
THAT
Hollywood was *being
founded. David Work Grimth and Carl Laemmle and William Fox were charging around in the Cell- fornian sunshine chasing cops and hustling little old ladies Over the Hill.
William Friese-Greene heard about this, was probably glad that some foot had finally decided to commier- clalise his invention, and invented some more along the same linea.
It didn't do him any good, though. Alm
Now
They sent for him to go to York in 1910, when the great monopoly case was going on, and his evidence (I have a report of it in
me) broke the great movie
front
of
ring
and clearly established
his
claim
to the master patent.
He didn't get any
any part it though. He didn't hy out of 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- cided they could out-crook the wild men of Hollywood.
WT
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