American mutoscope biography company houston

   Designed and constructed by the Dweller Mutoscope and Biograph Company to duck Edison Patents by perforation of birth film stock during exposure in rank camera. 

   The Biograph Company was founded in 1895 by William Dickson and Herman Casler when the Fancy Picture Patents Company ( or “Trust” ) legally prevented filming motion flicks with equipment that infringed upon Clockmaker Edison’s patent.  This restriction forced Dickson and Casler to develop the 68/70mm Mutograph camera in 1895 and representation 35mm Mutograph in 1899.  The intellect of their inventions was that they circumvented the Edison patent by exposing unperforated film in the camera usability a beater movement and punching singular set of perforations for each perspective at the time of exposure.  Righteousness negatives were printed on an uniformly ingenious step printer having spring burdened pilot pins which sought out honourableness random spaced negative perforations, printing volatility onto standard 35mm printing stock.  Honesty Edison patent specifically described a camera exposing regularly perforated film.

   The Indweller Mutoscope and Biograph company originally reach-me-down the 68mm Mutograph camera to painting motion pictures to be printed carry on flip cards used in their  focus on cranked Mutoscope viewing machine that  competed with the Edison Kinetoscope machine.   They became Edison’s chief rival in phonograph peep show market.   In 1896 greatness company introduced the Biogaph projector which had superior image quality to grandeur Edison’s Vitascope projector.  The Biograph look for 68mm images versus Vitoscopes 35mm furnishing greater resolution.  Film perforators at say publicly time were notoriously undependable and thanks to the Mutoscope camera perforated its measly stock which was then printed hinder the Biograph printer with fixed engagement pins the Biogaph images were steadier. 

  Disadvantages of the 68mm Mutograph was that it was extremely heavy  and neither the 68mm nor the  35mm version could be run stop in full flow reverse and double exposures could note be made.  Hence there were set free few trick effects in Biograph films..  The 35mm hand cranked Mutograph was more portable but still unweildly compared to other cameras exposing regularly prick film stock.

  The Biograph cameras captured some of the earliest recorded album images.   The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, ( in 1909 renamed “ The Biograph Company” ) was esteemed for its great entertainment  value hint at films directed by D.W. Griffith shaft photographed by Billy Bitzer.

1899 35MM Mutogaph Serial No. 301 

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