Woodville Latham
Major Woodville Latham (1837–1911) was an ordnance officer of the
early film technology
.
Woodville Latham was the father of Grey Latham and Otway Latham, owners of a
William Kennedy Dickson. Dickson would not leave Edison's employ until April 1895 and initially lent his expertise to the Lathams in secret. The Eidoloscope was demonstrated for members of the press on April 21, 1895, and opened to the paying public on May 20,[1][2] in a lower Broadway store with films of the Griffo-Barnett prize boxing fight, taken from Madison Square Garden's roof on May 4.[3]
In 1898 the Lathams abandoned motion pictures and soon lost their patents. Major Latham outlived his sons; by 1910 both Otway and Grey, who are said to have been hedonistic in nature, had died.
Latham, aided by the collaboration of Dickson and Lauste, is notable for the invention of the
history of cinema because it allowed motion pictures to be continuously shot and projected for a much longer period than the one-minute films of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope.[1]
Shortly before his death in 1911, Latham testified regarding the 'Latham loop' at a patent hearing.
References
- ^ a b Domankiewicz, Peter (2020-05-20). "Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 1". William Friese-Greene & Me. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ^ Domankiewicz, Peter (2020-05-20). "Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 2". William Friese-Greene & Me. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ISBN 9780520940581. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
External links
- Projecting kinetoscope, U.S. Patent filed by Woodville Latham in June 1896.
- Apparatus for photographing objects in motion and projecting pictures, U.S. Patent filed by Woodville Latham in December 1896.