Edison, glad see you back. The laboratory's staff soon found that the thinner
celluloid film produced the Blair Company was best suited to
moving pictures. I
hope that you are satisfied with the kineto-phonograph.
Dickson also experimented with tachyscope which enabled him
to project images."
The development work the kinetoscope continued through
1890, aided better film strip and mechanical improvements in
the machine. New models were built that used 3/4- inch wide
films with 1/2-inch square images; Dickson was slowly working
toward best format for the film which combined the desirable
mechanical and photographic properties. Finally there Edison's marginal note Terry
Ramsaye's Million and One Nights:" "The facts are that
Dickson and had machine projecting screen foot
45
square the time were making the kinetoscope. The ore milling project
." Dickson claimed to
have shown Edison projected moving image, accompanied by
sound, welcome the boss his return from Paris the
fall 1889. His first caveat October 1888 mentioned that "the
picture might projected screen. Dickson recalled that led Edison the new
photographic building and there the machine produced image
of Dickson, four foot five foot, while phonograph played
the message: "Good Morning Mr. Many would deny Edison the priority this
invention but there can little doubt that Edison saw the
possibilities projecting image and devoted experiments to
it.VI-37
controversy. His device was exhibited the Lenox Lyceum
in 1890
