Latham Relics — above — Michael Leonard, who posed for the first screen fight made for Latham‘s special edition of Edison’s Kinetoscope — below — one of Latham’s Panoptikon’s first projectors — bottom — Latham Eidoloscope film of 1895, extract size.
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Hi!
I’m an NYU grad student working on a research project about Latham’s panoptikon/eidoloscope – can I ask where you found these pictures? They’re great! Every film historian notes that the eidoloscope film was 50mm, but I didn’t realize it had such an odd perforation alignment. No wonder he invented the Latham loop, that film was just begging to be torn!
Nice to hear from an enthusiast, Ethan. The photo and caption come from “A Million And One Nights, A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 ” by Terry Ramsaye. I would imagine NYU library would have a copy of this thing. If not there’s a preview available on google books.
Click the category called “way back” and you’ll find a dozen or so other photo posts from this book on this site.