The Boy's Book of New InventionsMaule, Harry E. (Harry Edward)
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The Boy's Book of New Inventions
Maule, Harry E. (Harry Edward)
Inventions
The simpler of the two methods in general use on projectors now is
called the "dog" movement. It is composed of an eccentric wheel
placed below the film gate, with a little roller projecting from it.
The wheel revolves and once every sixteenth part of a second the
roller is brought around so that it strikes the film and jerks it
down the three fourths of an inch that makes the space of one picture.
[Illustration: A MOTION-PICTURE STUDIO
This is where a great many of the Edison Photoplays are made.
Besides all the other departments there is room on the stage for
several different plays to be photographed at one time.]
[Illustration:
Courtesy of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
A REALISTIC FILM OF WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE
This picture was taken in zero weather on a real stream with real
ice menacing the actors in the boats.]
The other method is known as the "Maltese Cross" movement. The name
is taken from the fact that the chief sprocket wheel is shaped
somewhat like a Maltese Cross. This wheel, with four notches in it,
is attached to the sprocket below the film gate, and it is driven
intermittently by a wheel with a pin that enters one of the notches
on the Maltese Cross wheel at each revolution, and pushes it
around the space of one quarter of a turn. This of course turns the
lower toothed sprocket and jerks the film down the space of one
picture. On the next revolution of the driving wheel the pin enters
the next notch, turns the Maltese Cross wheel another quarter of a
turn, and, by the motion imparted to the sprocket, jerks the film
down another three quarters of an inch, thereby pulling another
picture into place as the shutter opens.
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