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THE MOVIE PROJECTOR

THE MOVIE PROJECTOR

Most of these stories here are about how we mistake incremental improvements. But the story of the movie projector is a story about theft. 

Francis Jenkins built what we consider the ur-instrument of the motion-picture industry with a projector that showed strips of films for 1/24th of a second, creating the illusion of moving pictures. 

But his financial backer stole the Jenkins prototype and sold it to a theater chain, which called it the "Edison Vitascope" for no better reason than the word Edison was familiar and useful for branding.

His legacy here was mostly the work of a thief.

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