William Friese-Greene

William Friese- Greene ( born September 7, 1855 in Bristol, † 8 May 1921 in London; actually William Edward Green ) was a British photographer and inventor.

Life

William Green was made by John Arthur Roebuck Rudge in Bath in 1882 with his series of photographs and "Bio- Phantascope " known. From 1885 he was principal of Annibal Lege & Co., 31-32 Kirby Street, Hatton -garden, London. He had a new machine, with which he perforated paper tape. 1888-89 helped him a camera for shooting the design engineer Mortimer Evans. He reported in 1889 on a chrono photographic camera for a patent, with which he was able to later take 10 frames per second on paper film on roll film. Evans and Green shared in the English patent, No. 10'131, 21 June 1889. A new camera built Evans 1893, British Patent 22'954, very similar to the camera, the electrical engineer Frederick Henry Varley for 1889-90 Green constructed.

Green has 1889 only uses a simplex camera. He left him intolerable thought that there should be in the presentation of a moving image blackouts, and turned then on the duplex procedure. The devices obtained were used for sensing, such as exposure of two recordings, and the film transport would together. The long time as stereoscopic cameras cameras respected by William Green are duplex structures in truth.

As a bank that was involved in the Green, went bankrupt, in 1891 he found himself back in prison.

After his marriage he called himself Friese- Greene, in honor of his wife and with additional e for euphony. His son was the cinematographer Claude Friese- Greene.

1895-96 began a collaboration with the Greens cinema industrialist John Alfred Prestwich, for which he designed cameras, a copying machine and a duplex projector. This is obtained at the Science Museum in London 's South Kensington. It involves a sophisticated device that delivers flicker-free projection at any frame rate. The Prestwich but cameras are simplex devices without exception. Green had to accept that he was at an impasse. Today is not held by a scene when recording on a film about half, depending on the opening angle closure in circulation.

The life story Friese- Greene was also the subject of a written by Ray Allister 's biography (1948 ) and the movie based on Biography The wonderful goggle ( The Magic Box, 1951), in which the inventor of Robert Donat was played.

The cameras of Evans and Green have been rebuilt.