Some Errata

The 1903 35mm Edison silent film projector is the Improved Exhibition model Projecting Kinetoscope, not a kinescope, which is an entirely different machine. Links to PKs will appear here:

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The purpose of framing is to keep the frame lined up in the film gate. In television terms, framing is similar to roll - seen in older TV sets. The term has little to do with observation of film sprocket holes on the screen, which is an entirely different story.

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Deuel County is in southwestern Nebraska, Valley and Fremont are in eastern Nebraska. It's a geography thing.

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Unfortunately, Enon didn't live long enough to tell much of his silent film experiences, nor did he see the PK operate with all of its components. What is known is described on the silent film web site. Most of the provenance was obtained later through mail and telephone research and through our travels. In recent years, research has continued through the power of the internet. Perhaps you've heard of it.

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The discussion of the dangers of inhaling CO2 gas is worth mentioning. The number of projectionists who were killed or burned due to fires caused by exploding nitrate film is unknown at this time.

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Little evidence exists that glass slides were ever projected as described here. It was flexible film which enabled still images to be projected in rapid succession to make a "movie" appear on a screen.

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Leland Stanford may or may not have bet a colleague that all four feet of his horse were off the ground at the same time. Nevertheless, Stanford commissioned Edweard Muybridge to photograph a horse at different rates of speed. These still photographs proved that all four hooves are indeed off the ground at a certain point in a horse's trot. When projected together, these still images became the basis for the first "movie" film.

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Music to accompany silent films evoked emotions to help explain the story. No evidence exists that silent film projectionists used the speed of music to influence the speed of projecting a film on the screen. Quite the contrary occurred - silent film musicians, sitting in the pit or side of the theatre, would play music to coincide to the film's scenes and emotional content. A modern group, Alloy, produces brand new music scores for silent films. They accompanied a silent film at The Ross in Lincoln, in 2004.

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