The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 3: 1898 by Barnes John

Author:Barnes, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780859899680
Publisher: National Book Network International

Already France held the world lead as far as the production of films was concerned and this was a fact acknowledged at the time by such an expert in the trade as W. C. Hughes.145 However, this lead did not apply to the manufacture of equipment and in this respect the English product was on a par with the French, whereas the American was a very poor runner-up.

Among the French apparatus regularly in use in England at this time was the universally acclaimed Cinematographe-Lumiere, although this was by now losing its popularity and Fuerst Brothers, its English agents, had been forced by 18 January to reduce its price to £40.146 The Lumieres had felt the need for a new apparatus and so the Model B Cinematographe was introduced (70). Unlike the former machine, which combined the functions of camera, printer and projector and took only the special Lumiere film with its round perforations, this new machine was designed solely for projection and used film perforated to the Edison gauge.

The Model B Cinematographe had been exhibited in England the year previously, when it was known as the Triograph, although at that time it was not available on the open market. During most of 1898 the projector was still being exhibited as the Triograph under the direction of George Francis through Fred Higham’s Agency.147 But the projector now had a wider field of operation by being readily available to showmen throughout the country. The price of the “B” was £20,148 and although it retained the same movement as the original cinematographe, it was much more sturdily built and, having but one function, far less complicated.

Only one other French machine seems to have reached the English market and that was the Vitagraphe149 made by Clement & Gilmer, of Paris, and originally introduced here in 1896.150 During 1898 the firm introduced two new models, one designed solely for projection, at £18151 (71), and the other for both projection and photography, at £30152 (72). Apart from the illustrations, we have no particulars of either of these machines.

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