The First Demonstration of Film Projector

MAJOR Lantham Woodville (1837-1911) is a confederation weapons officer during the American Civil War and professor of chemistry at West Virginia University. Woodville is a key figure in the history of film technology. He is also the father of Grey and Otway Latham, owner of the Kinetoscope parlor in New York. In December 1894, Woodville and his sons formed the Lambda Frankfort Street 35.

Woodville employs Eugà Lauste ¨ ne, a former employee of Thomas Edison, and William Kennedy Dickson, a pioneer in the film. Company Lambda develop film camera and projector prototype named panoptikon film (which eventually replaced eidoloscope). On April 21, 1895, in the United States panoptikon movie projection demonstrated to the public for the first time.

Originally Woodville with Dickson and Lauste Latham managed to find the loop for a movie camera and projector, which in the historical development of cinema has finally recognized a period longer than Thomas Edison kinetoscope. Shortly before his death, in 1911, Latham Latham testify again about the loop and the patenting of this invention.

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