5.25.12
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5.09.12
The first ever mixer with crossfader. The Gaumont Chronophone: made in 1910.
“In 1910 Gaumont demonstrated his Chronophone system, which synchronised sound and film, at the Gaumont Palace in Paris. The compressed-air amplifier, whiuch he called the Eglephone, was just a part of the whole system. The volume was enough for an audience of 4000. Initially the longest moving picture that could be made with synchronised sound was only 200ft, due to the limited playing time of the Gramophone record. (Projection was at 16 frames per second) Gaumont surmounted this problem by having two gramophone platters; a deft operator could switch between them to give a more or less continuous soundtrack.”
4.23.12
John Thomson was a talented and influential photographer, who had spent ten years travelling in, and taking photographs of, the Far East. On his return to London he joined with Adolphe Smith, a socialist journalist, in a project to photograph the street life of the London poor. The volumes were published in monthly parts as Street Life in London, and were an early example of social and documentary photography.
4.20.12
The 19th century author H. G. Wells spent a large part of his childhood in the servants’ quarters at Uppark House in Sussex. His mother Sarah was housekeeper there and in Wells’ words “the worst housekeeper who was ever thought of”. The housekeeper was the most senior of the female servants in a…
