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...achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos...
Thomas; Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of the Eastman amateur publications. Mmes Roosevelt and Post were unable to attend the final judging, but the other three took their work seriously. For two solid hours newshawks waited outside glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching...
...debate will take place at 8 o'clock in Eastman Hall at M.I.T. All members of the University are invited to be present...
Rochester. Scientists are traditionally supposed to be humble because they realize how much they do not know. Not at all humble is Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, longtime research director of Eastman Kodak's laboratories. Urbane, smooth Dr. Mees, who speaks four languages and knows more than any other man about photography, last week told the touring tycoons...
...time, money and effort. A herring lays a million eggs of which only one may be hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field of photography. In a vacuum of one-millionth atmospheric pressure, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is distilling pure Vitamins A and D from animal oils. An X-ray device has been developed which tells genuine from imitation leather, and which reveals the minutest internal...