Catalogue des appareils cinématographiques de la Cinémathèque française et du CNC

Type de l'appareil

entraînement du film 35 mm par une croix de Malte à cinq branches ; obturateur à une pale avec rangées de trous ; un débiteur denté ; couloir avec trois galets ; fenêtre réglable en hauteur ; objectif à crémaillère avec vis réglable ; support de bobine ; base en bois ; manivelle

Auteurs

Haydon George
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Urry Frank Harvey
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Sommerville George

Fabricants

George Haydon
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Frank Harvey Urry
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

George Sommerville
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Utilisateurs

Haydon George
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Urry Frank Harvey
Londres, 22 & 23 Church Street

Sommerville George

Distributeurs

Haydon & Urry LTD
Londres, 353 Upper Street

Sujet du modèle

Informations non disponibles

Objectif

absent (tube optique 4 cm Ø)

Taille de l'objet

Ouvert :
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Fermé :
Longueur : 45 cm
Largeur : 32 cm
Hauteur : 34 cm

Diamètre :
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Taille de la boîte de transport

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Remarques

Gravé sur le cuivre : "Haydon & Urry LTD, London N. Pat N° ". Le n° 1 se trouve sur la platine arrière, face avant. Provenance Collection Will Day.

Le premier modèle de l'Eragraph figure dans la collection Barnes (daté c. 1897) ; le deuxième est conservé au Science Museum et chez Barnes (1897 ; la manivelle est sur la roue de droite) ; une publicité le reproduit dans The Magic Lantern Journal Annual 1898-1899. Mais ce modèle précis de la collection Will Day (légèrement différent), n'est pas connu de Barnes. Il porte le n° 1.

Voir autre exemplaire CNC-AP-15-1209.

Selon des informations diffusées sur Internet en 2007, il s'agirait du "1898 Improved Model": "The Eragraph in the Cinematheque française appears to be slightly different than the two models brought out in 1897. The production or serial number N°1 on the engraved plate suggests that it may have been the first in a new series. This machine is likely the '1898 Improved Model' that was advertised in the Magic Lantern Journal in 1898" (http://users.nwon.com/pauline/Films.html).

Haydon and Urry Limited a été créé en 1893 par George Haydon, Frank Harvey Urry, George Sommerville pour la fabrication et vente de systèmes mécaniques, gazomètres, phonographes, polyphones, machines automatiques. D'abord installé 31 Furnival Street à Londres en 1894-1895, puis au 34 Gray's Inn Road en 1896, ils installent en décembre 1896 des bureaux et un magasin au 353 Upper Street. En 1897, une production de films commence (ouverture d'un petit studio, 20 et 22 Church Street, adjacent au magasin d'Upper Street).

"One of the most popular projecting machines sold to the travelling fair ground showman from 1896 onwards was the Eragraph, manufacted and marketed by Haydon & Urry, at their works in Upper Street Islington, directly opposite the Agricultural Hall. Monti Williams, the son of the great veteran showman, Randall Williams, who was connected with the firm at that time, was responsible in a great measure for bringing this projector into being. Having a show booth with some Edison's Kinetoscopes installed, and hearing of the wonderful display of moving pictures being shown by Mons. Trewey at the Polytechnic for Lumiere, this alert showman made it his business to obtain an interview with Trewey, and upon his request being granted he was allowed to see the apparatus at work. Monti Williams was very quick to grasp the details of the projecting mechanism, and made a hurried sketch of the movement and also secured a small cutting of the film from Trewey. With this knowledge in his possession, he hurried back to Mr. George Haydon, who was a very clever mechanical engineer. Upon comparing the piece of film in use by Trewey with that made by Edison for the Kinetoscope, the guage was found to differ and also the perforation holes. Having obtained a good idea of the mechanism needed to impart an intermittent movement to the film, Mr. Haydon made a search at the Patent Office, to find a satisfactory motion that he could apply for this purpose, and this he discovered in the Maltese Cross movement with a locking cam and striking pin as applied for use in a cotton spinning jenny, patented for use in Rylands cotton spinning mills. He was not long in adapting this movement to a projector which he completed and placed upon the market. His first machines were ready in May 1896, when he sold the machines assisted by Mr. Urry, under the name of Eragraph, and the name of Haydon and Urry soon became famous for the supply of both projectors, films and accessories. It was with one of these projector mechanism fitted into a light tight box which served as a camera that Monti Williams journeyed across the Continent to Cannes Harbour in June 1896 and secured the first film of royal personage ever taken on a moving picture camera, viz, that of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, when on board his yacht, the Britannia. [...] The Eragraph was the first projector to be installed and used by Felix Glenister at the London Pavilion in 1896, where it ran in competition with the Empire and Alhambra Theatres, being operated by Signor Polverina and Fred Griffiths. Another clever feat accomplished by Monti Williams was to film Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and show it the same night at the London Pavilion [...]" (Will Day, 25 000 Years to Trap a Shadow, tapuscrit, archives Cinémathèque française).

Bibliographie

J. Barnes, The Rise of the Cinema in Great Britain, Londres, 1983, pp. 66-69.