Show HOW MOVING PICTURES WERE FIRST MADE Sir John H Ilci after atter dinner in 1826 1526 askel his friend Charles Babbage how h ho he would show ho both sides rides of a shilling at once replied by br taking a II hlll- hlll shilling Ing from his pocket and holding It Il to a mirror This did not nol satisfy Sir John who set th the shilling spinning upon the dinner table at tho the same time pointing out ont that If It the c eye e Is placed on a level lovel with tho the rotating coin both sides can be seen at al once Babbage c was S so struck by the experiment cx- cx that the next da day he ho described describe It to a friend Dr who Immediately mado a working model On one side of a adl dl disk k was T elm drawn a bird on the thc other othet- side an empty empt birdcage when T tho the card Iud was revolved d on a silk thread the bird ap appeared appear appeared ap- ap pear d to be In tho the cage This model showed the persistence of or vision Illon upon which all mavIn moving pictures depend for their effect Tho The eye e retains tho the Image of the tho object seen acci for a n fraction of a second a nf- nf tor 2 the tho object his has hE been beon n removed This model was as called tho the camo the or wheel l 1 of ot 11 lift ill cylinder was perforated with a sent jerk erf slots and within th the cUnder cylinder wasa wu was pi pia a a. band of draw drawIngs ings of dancing rom mob 0 apparatus being slowly rotated the tha t i seen through h the slots app appeared ar l to to fc motion The first systematic pho taken at regular Intervals of men men animals were l made by Mu e la 11 1 I New cw New York World |