It was the first time the public of any State had ever been given the opportunity to register its opinion on this important subject. Massachusetts is a conservative State. Its people are conservative people. They rejected censorship by a vote greater than that given to any candidate on the ticket or to any issue. Their voice at the polls was based upon a thorough understanding and consideration of this issue. In this work of enlightenment, the newspapers of Massachusetts performed a tremendous service to the motion picture. Ninety-two per cent of them stood staunchly upon the principle that freedom of expression upon the screen is just as essential to its further development as freedom of the press is essential to the continued enlightenment of mankind.
APPENDIX D
SIGNIFICANT DATES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE MOTION PICTURE
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, of France, inventor of photography, born 1789, died 1851.
Desvignes, of France, devised apparatus for animated photography, 1860.
Du Mont, of France, formulated scheme of chronophotography, 1861.
Muybridge, an Englishman, photographs a trotting horse in motion, California, 1872.
Jansen’s photographic revolver for recording the transit of Venus, 1874.
Dr. E. J. Marey’s photographic gun for studying the flight of birds, 1882.
Stern filed patent in Great Britain for chronophotographic apparatus, 1889.