How photography represents images in action

Series of illustrations acompany an article about motion pictures. The images show facets of Edward Hill Amet's moving picture machine, including several men standing around a motion picture camera on a tripod, the motion of the machine printing, film strips of a train in motion, a man riding a bicycle, and a boxing match, the magniscope, and Edwin Hill Amet (the inventor of the magniscope) standing next to one of his moving-picture cameras.

Publication date: 1897-04-04

Size: 24.7 x 29.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Chicago (Ill.)

Subject(s):

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

Genre(s):

• Illustrations

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. 37

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• O'Shaughnessy, Thomas A., -1956