Children and Dogs at Play

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Animation des 7 photogrammes
Silvanus Thompson, Light Visible and Unvisible, Londres, 1897, p. 98.

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Children nº 1

Children and Dogs at play in the field.

PAU 1896


Children

A beautiful domestic picture of Children and Dogs at Play.

PAU 1897-01


Children and Dogs at Play

PAU 1897-03

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1 Paul 29 (1896), 7 (1897)  
2 Robert-William Paul  
 
And the latest triumph in this development of the subject has been reached in the animatograph, which the inventor, Mr. R. Paul, has kindly consented to exhibit.
The animatograph pictures are photographed upon a travelling ribbon of transparent celluloid; the time which elapses between each picture being taken and the next being about one-fiftieth of a second. A scene lasting half a minute will, therefore, be represented on a long ribbon. If these pictures are then passed in their proper order through a special lantern, with mechanism that will bring each picture up to the proper place between the lenses, hold it there an instant, than snatch it away and put the next in its place, and so forth, the photograph projected on the screen will seem to move. You see in a street scene, for example, the carts and omnibuses going along; the horses lift their feet, the wheels roll round, foot passengers ans policemen walk by. Everything goes on exactly as it did in the actual street. Or you see some children toddling beside a garden seat. A big dog comes up, and the boy jumps astride of him, but falls off (Fig. 62), and rises rubbing his bumps. Or a passenger steamer starts from Dover pier: you see her paddles revolve, the crowd on the pier wave farewells with handkerchiefs or hats, the steamer wheels round, you see the splash of foam, you note the rolling clouds of black smoke proceeding from her funnel, then she goes out of sight round the corner. the reality of the motions is so great that you feel as though you had veritably seen it all with your own eyes. And so you have. You have juste as truly seen the movements of the scene as when you have listened to the phonograph you have heard the voice which once impressed the record of its vibrations. Of all the animatograph pictures those that appeal most to me are the natural scenes, such as the waves rolling up into a sea-cave and breaking on the rocks at its mouth, and dashing foam and spray far up into its interior. Nothing is wanting to complete the illusion, save the reverberatiing roar of the waves.Silvanus Thompson, Light Visible and Unvisible, Londres, 1897, p. 97-99.
3 <07/08/1896 40 ft
4 Grande-Bretagne. Lambeth. Archibishop' field  

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07/08/1896 Grande-Bretagne. Canterbury Geo. Adney Payne Children at Play
31/08/1896 Grande-BretagneLondres R.-W. Paul  
  paul alhambra
 Programme, Alhambra Theatre, 31 août 1896
© Theatre Museum, Covent Garden
19/10/1896 Grande-Bretagne, Cardiff R.-W. Paul  
 

ROBERT W.PAUL'S
PHOTOGRAPH ANIMATOR
Robert W. Paul is the inventor of the Animatographe now at the Alhambra, London. He will personnally superintend his production here.
The Pictures exhibited will be selected from the following:
1. Blacksmiths, Engineers, and Machinery at Work at Nelson Dock, London
2. Struggle of a Bookmaker with the Police, and his arrest.
3. Arrival of the Paris Maritime Express at Calais, and Passengers disembarking.
4. Scene on Blackfriars Bridge, London, with traffic.
5. Landing of a Boat Party on Brighton Beach.
6. A Comic Costume Race at the Music Hall Sports, July 14th 1896.
7. Procession of Life Guards and State Carriages leaving Marlborough House.
8. Steam Launch-a child overboard!-the rescue.
9. Children and dogs at play in the field.
10. The Gordon Highlanders
11. A very comic scene of Love and War.
12. Continuation at foregoing.
13. Spanish Street scene.
14. Bathing scene at Lisbon,
and
THE PRINCE'S DERBY,
15. The finish of the great race of 1896, showing the victory of the Prince of Wale's horse Persimmon.
16. Continuation of the above, showing thousands of people rushing on to the course.


South Wales Daily News, Cardiff, october 19, 1896, 1.

10/11/1897 Grande-BretagneGreat Marlow David Devant Children Playing with Dogs

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