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THIS

A CHANGING ACT IN THE FAR EAST THEATRE

"STRUBE" IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"

MAN

WHO

IS THE STARTED IT ALL, 50 YEARS AGO

I ALWAYS feel a little

sheepish when I cite film millions in atories. Film millions aren't real. They are an invention as gay in their way as Old Vienna.

He

invented

movies..

apparatus for recording Hertzian waves, which sounds strangely like radio to me (although radio did not hit the publie

and conscience year he properly until 1921, the died

car

The spring of 1000 he was busy

with all the time

don't paper. fascinated him

know why paper

so, but out of his seventy-four in- ventions Afteen had to do with it.

He keeps on coming back to it.

But in July 1800 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.

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, cleven years before that he had invented the principle of moving pictures, so don't have much doubt that what he meant in 1900 was television.

The thing was on his mind until April the s

following м

when he your registered another television patent,

to compulsory military train- ing the question was ut once 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 The same question may well meeting at the 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-

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 seat,

and died. coming.

The most satisfactory and the and the shock of such a tragedy had After they had curried him away

most obvious preventive mea-turned itself naturally into the sure is that of restricting Goy- ritual of respect wo pay men who ernment payments to contrac-pockets and found that he had Is. He left the William Foxes, the Sain able articics. In 1893 it was pano- was back on his pet motive power, tors. It is claimed in England 1d; and that was all he had in the Goldwyns, the David Wark Griffiths ramic views. In 1895 he was light. He had an office in Holborn, so....

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 Д

whot your hearts while he went on invent- process (I wonder

that one I don't suppose he even bothered to HIS careful checking of costs when

ing things.

was).

use the horse-bus. In 1800, 1007 and a part of 1008. contracts are made, and the native of Bristol, and lived most of

fertile HAVE a list of his inven- he was fussing around with

ROUND 1000 his Kames, recent formation of a Ministry his life in Sussex.Recently was cele-

tions here in front of me. explosives, but in 1899 he really got

mind couldn't cope with of Supply ought to facilitate the brated the fiftieth anniversary of his He registered seventy-four patents in down to it with a paient 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"; task. But even so it is admitted 21, 1080, when he was thirty-four, ly. After Inventing the cinema in blandly: Obtaining motive power. he sat right down

he registered Patent No. 19,131 as June 1889 he register

(because he thought it He skirted nently around the plans for such a conveyance and got that there will be loopholes proved Apparatus for Taking would it in nicely with the gramo philosopher's stone that year and his 11le ticket to say he was the

phone), he concentrated the next went on to cartridges, paper, inklesu first man to do so. He had heard, about that time, year on a meter for measuring elec- printing and obtaining more motive

Thomas Edison tricity.

power. that a man called

In 1892 he was preserving perish-

year, too,

are briefly dead, they turned out his

world.

name Was Williamı Friese-Greene, he was a

Photographs in Rapid Series."

was

the

through which armament firms may make more than they should do; and it is to meet such leakage

interested in developing seme- that the Government is proposthing he called the phonograph, and ing to levy a certain standard, in his real interest was to

register his the case of firms which are process-which was basically receiving not less than £200,000 principle of the shutter that clicks and splits movement up into sec- 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 sound.

The question is reasonably asked, why confine the tax to large firms, and why not take all

You see, in 1809 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. declared no doubt the full toll Later he himself registered much the same process as Friese-Greene's, would be taken, and the tax

Credit and history has given him the would not be confined to arma- for the invention of this great enter- ment firms but applied to all tainment form. But he the industries. But there is much himself before he died that

Englishman was there first. So did 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-timo footing until it be- comes absolutely necessary; to

admitted

O-DAY the great im in- TO-DA

dustry that he made pos

and it is angry.

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 paris, trade.

The British Treasury think that The measure now contemplat-lms 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 all the powers of advertising, faithfully carried out, and that Sir John Simon, how wrong he is.

Press and screen propaganda to tell there should be no evasions.

They are 50 busy at this innocent The conditions require unending business that they have completely vigilance. They are those of forgotten that be celebrating. peaco which is not peace, of war decently, they shy is a day that,

which is not war.

There is so much that is

So far as ond past that they should recognise there is peace, trade requires and so much that is horrible that elasticity and freedom from may never came. They have 4.000 out in the exacting restraints. So far na propuganda trallers

cinemas and a lot cise to make sure thera is war, there must be con- that it never docs 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.

Of course, the real reason for this seeming ingratitude is that Fricsd- Greene never became one of them.

by Paul

Holt

IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS"

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he had an

By Lichty

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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!"

and then he forgot it. He was off on explosives. A fortnight later he

and drew the

Thus, in December 1000, he had an idea for an air-car.

that he was It isn't clear even satisfied with that one himself, al- though he was a sanguine man, be-

eighteen

months later he cause cracked in two Inventions hard on top of

of each other and he called cach one AIRSHIP. Patent numbers are 10,000 and 25,593,

Sometime then he must have re- Was the men membered that he who invented the cinema, because there is a list of seven am inven- tions in direct sequence, starting in March 1909, and keeping up evenly, about three inventions to the year, until 1913.

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being

THAT was just the time that

Hollywood founded. David Wark Griffith and Carl Laemmle and William. Fox were charging around in the Call- fornian sunshine chasing cops and hustling little old ladies Over the

Hi

William Friese-Greene heard about this, was probably glad that some fool had finally decided to commer- cialise his invention, and invented some more along the same lines..

It didn't do him any good, though,

Lo They sent for him to go

Now York in

when 1010,

the

great alm monopoly case was going on, and his a report of it in evidence (I have front of me) broke the great movie ting and clearly established his

faim to the

patent.

master

"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- cided they could out-crook the wild men of Hollywood,

WILLIAM FRIESE-GREENE :

came home and got info debt and went to prison and came. PLEASE Turn To Page 5.

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