In USMA 14085 Kilopacal asked: >Bill, > >Or anyone else who keeps archives of past postings, > >Yesterday when I forwarded the response from Fujifilm to the USMA list, it >must have also gone back to the person who sent it too, and this was their >response. I know you said you keep an archive of old postings in case one >needs to be resurrected. Could you find the one I posted from the camera >buff whose web site insisted the film was 34.8 mm and wanted proof today's >film is not. Kilopascal's USMA 13834 stated: >In May 1889 Thomas Edison had ordered a Kodak camera from the Eastman >Company and was apparently fascinated by the 2 3/8" roll of film used. >Thereupon W.K.L.Dickson of his laboratory ordered a roll of film of 1 >3/8"(34,8mm) width from Eastman. This was half the film size used in Eastman >Kodak cameras. It was to be used in a new type of Kinescope for moving >images on a strip of celluloid film, which could be viewed by one person at >the time. The Kodak film must have been 2-3/4" wide. Half of that width is 1-3/8" = 34,925 mm, *not* 34,8 mm. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
