L'Animatoscope de Jos. Chilberg (Odd Fellow's building, <29> janvier 1897)

Jos. Chilberg propose des vues animées grâce à son animatoscope :

The Animatoscope.
This wonderful invention by Edison, an evolution of the kinetoscope, is on exhibition by Jos. Chilberg, at the Odd Fellows' building, in the storeroom formerly occupied by Kaufman & Sons. It combines the wonderful life-like movements of pictures shown by the latter, with the distinctness and size of projections from the stereopticon, a combination of the two instruments resulting in the animatoscope.
The natural movements of any animated object are reproduced with startling exactness, from a film containing a countless number of photographic pictures, taken during action, which are passed in rapid succession over the object glass of a powerful lantern. Each of these images conveys to the vision an impression of the object in a slightly changed position and the rapidity with which they are changed produces the appearance of uninterrupted continuity. Some of these films are nearly 100 feet in length, and each of the photographic pictures occupy a space of scarcely an inch of its length.
Among the objects illustrated by Mr. Chilberg's instrument are Niagara Falls, in which a charming idea of an immense moving flood, with its spray, swirls, foam and rainbows, is presented, and the spectator involuntarily pauses to hear the roar of the cataract. A Turkish dance by three maidens is the delight of the young men; a mill between Fitzsimmons and Sharkey elicits grunts of satisfaction from the "sport"; a bout in which Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull fight many rounds, in which our revered uncle is invariably the victor-knocking, punching and kicking the burly form of our choloric anestor is an object that excites shouts patriotic fervor and provokes of laughter.
To the student of science the exhibition is something more than pastime, a study into the adaptation of modern research for producing effects which seem to overide and defy natural laws.

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The Washington Standard, Olympia, vendredi 29 janvier 1897, p. 3.