DescriptionThe Chronophone, Model D, consists essentially of two units, a patented projecting apparatus and the talking apparatus, connected by multiple cables to a patented synchronizer. The projecting apparatus is the Chrono moving picture machine with a new, patented movement apparatus, the cam, “which neither wears, scratches nor breaks the film.” (Catalogue) The catalogue also boasts that “the pictures of the actors on the screen not only move in pantomime, but their lips move and there appears to issue from them the words just as from the lips of a living person.”
NoteSeries Three: Equipment Manufacturers: Active After 1900
Organization NameGeorge Eastman House (Rochester, New York)
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries
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