Cambridge Instrument Co.
ROBERT W. PAUL, instrument maker, constructed cameras and projectors in England.
The Vitascope being Exhibited in a Theatre or Public Hall.
(The machine can be just as successfully exhibited in vacant store-rooms, etc.)
Vitascope Brochure, 1896
VITASCOPE, Edison made, Armat designed, as an artist saw it in action—drawn for the first advertising promotion booklet, New York in 1896.
Generally, the motion picture industry was skeptical of talking motion pictures and their future. But soon public opinion registered emphatically and the addition of sound was accepted as an indispensable faculty of the medium of the screen. And now finally the ancient and persevering urge for true living pictures was satisfied.
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