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format gave superior image. They saw the
future projecting pictures and when they found good
projector, the hands Thomas Armat Washington, they
quickly acquired it.
The proliferation projection machines the forced
the Kinetoscope Company (managed Norman Raff and Frank Gammon)
into action revive their flagging business. They developed projecting device, called the
Pantopticon, their laboratory New York City and then
exhibited their boxing films with 1895.VII-21
business. They were businessmen with considerable
vision who also produced some important technical innovations,
with the help William Laurie Dickson (who left Edison in
1894). soon this
development was noticed West Orange, Edison assigned Charles
Kayser the task designing projector superior the
Lathams'.
The Latham brothers were typical the "pirates" that
Edison now had face. Formed 1895, this company had the
services Dickson and its own laboratory, studio, and
manufacturing facilities. much more dangerous competitor appeared the
form the Biograph— the projection machine the American
Mutoscope Company. December 1895 Raff and Gammon brought
Armat's machine the lab and Edison agreed manufacture the
. originally marketed Dickson's
Mutoscope— peep show machine along the lines the
kinetoscope— but quickly branched into projection. The Biograph
projector was again the work Dickson and its larger film
