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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION The Romantic History of the Motion Picture (Continued from page 96) A generation before in the Latham family this would have been provocation for a challenge and an affair of pistols and coffee. But presently he was Professor Latham again. He sat down to his desk and with painstaking care and control, wrote such a letter as he deemed compatible with his dignity and the situation. The first article in the Sun had won a double column space at the top of page 2, The next day on page 5, under a patent medicine advertisement, the Sun publishes Woodville Latham's letter: LATHAM’S PANTOPTICON The Inventor of if Denice That tt Infringes Upon the Kinetoscoge, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN—SiIr: You take motice in this morning's beaue of a device of mine fer projection on & screen hotegraphs of moving objects, and if you Ad stopped at that £ shouwld now be in your debt. But along with your account of the apparatus you publish certain invidious utterances of Mr. Thomas <A. Edison, which, if they went unchallenged, might re- flect on me personally In the estimation of persons who do not Know meé or are unac- quainted with the facts, and 1, thorefore, very respectfully request that you will give similar publicity to a word of reply from me. I am not acquainted with the interior structure of Mr. Edison's kinctoscope, and am unable, therefore, to tell whether there are points of similarity between be ap- paratus and mine or pot, TI have, however, seem the outside of his, and I do know that misie is not balf aa large, though it includes an applianee for projection, which his dees not, Another obvious difference is that my machine can carry thousands of feet of film as well aa shorter lengths, and can be wed for making long exhibitions, while as I am cereditably informed, hi Jarger machine (first made ty the way, on the order of one of my sons), can carry no more than one Hundred and fifty feet of film, and can afford an cxhibition of only about one minute. These facts would seem to indicate m very material differ- enee of make-ap. However, I apptied some weeks ago for letters patent om my ap- peretes, and it will not be a gront while fore the pablic will hare better evidence that Mr, Edison’s mere !pse dixit as to the priority of claim. As to Mr. Edison's threat to “prose. cute” anybody that exhibits my machine under any other pame than the one he chooses to call it by, Jt Is something a great deal Worse than puerile. I refer not, at this time, to characterize it more polnt- edly, So far as his even gquatified charge of “fraud” ts concerned, have only to say he woald probably not have made it If he bad reflectcd that the men to whom he ig IndeDted for ideas touching his kincto- scone are quite os numerous, beth in this muntry and abroad, as are.thoae who, by any pesalbility, could appropriate hi own. If Mr, Edison can project pictures of moving objects an a& eerven, as he says he can, whr does bo not do it as publicly az IT have done, and do it at once? WOODVILLE LATHAM, HOTEL BARTHOLDI, April 22 In this exchange of charges and challenges of twenty-seven years ago is reflected the coloration of all the embitterments that were to run down through the years of picture history, T was natural, in view of the events of April 2, that Edison should look upon Woodville Latham as an interloper and an infringer. Just as it is obvious today that Latham was a man of rigid principles. of old fashioned rectitude, conducting himself in this complex situation ih a manner that squared with his own conscience. It is per- haps just as natural, too, that Latham should have misjudged Edison and belittled his attainment of the kinetoscope. had heard some prejudiced testimony in the matter, (Continued on page 98) When you writo to actrvertisers please mention PFROTOPLAY MAGAZINE. 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