How photography represents images in action

Series of illustrations show how Edward Hill Amet's moving picture machine works. Images include: men standing around a motion picture camera on a tripod on the Tribune corner, the machine that prints pictures sixty feet long, example film strips, the magniscope, and Edwin Hill Amet (the inventor of the magniscope) standing next to one of his moving-picture cameras. Signed by O'Shaughnessy.

Publication date: 1897-04-04

Size: 24.7 x 29.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: black and white

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Chicago (Ill.)

Subject(s):

• Amet, Edward H. (Edward Hill), 1860-1948
• Amet, Edward H. (Edward Hill), 1860-1948--Associated objects
• Inventors--1890-1900
• Motion picture cameras--1890-1900
• Motion picture devices--1890-1900
• Photography--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900

Genre(s):

• Drawings
• Illustrations
• Portrait drawings
• Sketches

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (April 4, 1897), Part 5, p. 1

Format(s):

• image/jpeg
• application/pdf