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Show 1 2,200 YEARS AGO I FIRST MOVIE SEEN m 1 LONDON. Oct. 2 The carlient J I Idea of a moving picture was recorl- V d In tho time of Confucius, the c Hi Chinese philosopher who lived '.On j S years before Christ At least this m is the deduction drawn from his : 3 t-tudles Into the question by Will Day. j ij1 a well-known figure In the English I TjJi film world, who has exhibited 'n 1 , $1 ljondon a collection of relics and ma- j. fflH, chines tracing th growth of tho mov- I H lng picture from the first primitive H Idea to its present form. iSm Tho "shadow showB' of thi time; of Confucius are the first of all I JjHi known endeavors to oresent anlmat-, pictures From this early tlm-, ' I jU) however, there was a long period o? flm Inactivity In development, for C j aH next record of progressive achlevo- JH ment Is found In 1846. when Athana- , . H slus Klrcher published a book in L,a-i ; S tm entitled "Ars Magnalycus et Um- I jB brae." In which a description and It 1 J JM1 lustration is given of a moving picture j which the writer had evolved with - jH mirrors and a tallow candlo for 11-li H lumlnant. li jH Included In the collection Is the or-.' H iglnal disc which Eadwcard Muy-j brldgo used to settle, the controversy I lH' between two American millionaires n the Alo Palto race course as to wheth-H wheth-H er the four feet of a trotting horso were off the ground at the eame , time IffisiM The experiments which Muybrldce ; WL carried out is said to have cost tns 'J1'nl erslty of 'cnns-l vanla 40,000. .'"jll-u. f10 fact wns proved that a horse LB Sk1 actually lift all four feet elmul-H elmul-H ou oo |