entraînement du film 35 mm par une croix de Malte à sept branches ; un débiteur denté ; lanterne en bois et métal ; support pour bobine ; roue d'entraînement en fonte
Obelt Theodore van Heemstede
Amsterdam, 140 Rokin
Robert Royou Beard
Londres, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road
Obelt Theodore van Heemstede
Amsterdam, 140 Rokin
Robert Royou Beard
Londres, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road
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2 lentilles 3,5 cm Ø ; 2 lentilles condensatrices 8,5 cm Ø
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Longueur : 56 cm
Largeur : 36 cm
Hauteur : 40.5 cm
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Collection Will Day.
Will Day et John Barnes attribuent cet appareil à R.R Beard (1856-1932) ; mais ce modèle est breveté par le hollandais Obelt en 1897. Ni Day ni Barnes ne mentionnent le brevet d'Obelt. Celui-ci écrit dans son brevet, au sujet du nom donné à sa machine : "The machine or apparatus hitherto employed for effecting the said projections have been known as the "Cinematographe", "Cineamatoscope", "Animatograph", etc., but it is my intention that the machine or apparatus constituting my invention shall be commercialy known as the "Vitascope"" (nom déjà utilisé par Edison).
"A famous name in the lantern world at this time, was R. R. Beard (10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, S.E.). His fame chiefly rested on a patent compressed gas regulator of his own invention, which became an essential piece of equipment for lantern exhibitors when using cylinders of compressed oxygen and hygrogen gases for the limelight, then extensibely employed in optical lanterns and cinematographes as an illuminant. [...] Robert Royou Beard was born on the 10th of March, 1856, at Royal Palace, Commercial Road, Peckham, and died in February, 1932. [...] With the increasing popularity of the cinematograph among lantern exhibitors, Beard was not slow in realising the growing demand for this class of apparatus and accordingly in 1897 brought out his own projector, which was known as Beard's Cinematographe" (John Barnes, The Rise of the Cinema in Gt. Britain, London, Bishopsgate Press Ltd, 1983, p. 71-73).
R. Child Bayley, Modern Magic Lanterns, Londres, s.d. (c. 1897), p. XCVI (publicité).
W.Day, Illustrated Catalogue of the Will Day Historical Collection, Londres, s.d., [1934], p. 22.
John Barnes, The Rise of the Cinema in Gt. Britain, London, Bishopsgate Press Ltd, 1983, p. 71-73