Healthy Home Newsletter January 2014 - Volume XVLLL, Issue 1 | Page 2

Famous State of the Union Addresses: The Four Freedoms Speech, by FDR
(WKP) William Kennedy Dickson was a Scottish inventor who devised an
early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas. Patented on
January of 1894, Dickson also invented the first practical celluloid film for
this application and decided on 35 mm for the size, a standard that is still used
today. Thus began the magical era of movies.
Later in 1894 Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture
operation of the Latham brothers, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope
exhibition companies. With the Lathams, Dickson was part of the group that
formed the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Similar in concept
to flip-books, the mutoscope was a form of hand cranked machine that
produced moving images by means of a revolving drum of card illustrations,
taken