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...Lumière Jubilee...
Thus was climaxed the solemn jubilee of Louis Lumière whose name means light and who has never claimed that he and his brother Auguste invented the cinema...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their 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...
Dufaycolor is not the only film with the color screen applied directly on it. But because all color screens absorb some of the light they receive, all color films are "slower" than ordinary black-&-white film. Lumière film, the oldest, which is coated with fine starch grains, is 60 times slower. Agfa, which uses a solution of chemically discrete color elements, is 30 times slower. Not having geometrical screen patterns, these two films are susceptible to small inequalities of color distribution which may show up when a cinema projection is sufficiently magnified. Not only does Dufaycolor not suffer...
After asserting they had no part in the irregularities, Mr. Bob's associates held long, mysterious meetings, still maintained their chief's return was not far distant. In the offices of Rainbow Lumi nous Products, directors met for hours, hinted that new, strong interests were about to take hold, found the company decidedly solvent With these events the upward climb of Charles V. Bob seemed gravely impeded if not permanently halted. His whole story is the tale of a mining man who turned from the search of natural metals for the easier gold that lies...