Last night Mr Cecil Wray, the Yorkshire manager of the Edison-Bell Phonograph Corporation, exhibited his new invention, the kinetograph-an extension of the powers of the kinetoscope-to the membres of the Bradford Photographic Society. It may be of interest to your readers to explain how the pictures which represent so faithfully the movements gone through in the course of a skirt dance or a boxing match are procured. First the camera with a moving film inside is placed in front of the objects to be photographed, and by means of a mechanical shutter which is set in motion a succession of exposures are made, and negatives thus secured. These when printed out and prepared form a series of pictures which when passed through the kinetoscope give the desired effect. Mr Wray picked up the idea of applying the kinetoscope to the magic lantern when Mr Edison's invention was exhibited in Bradford last December, and his efforts have turned out mos successful.
The pictures are projected on to a screen by Mr Wray's lantern pretty much in the same way as ordinary pictures are by lantern slides, the only difference being the application of a little machine, which may either be worked by hand or by an electric motor. It requires, for instance, some 800 or 900 pictures to represent a feat performed by a contortionist, and these are wound from one spool to another in succession, passing between the light in the lantern and the lenses, and four turns of the wheel puts through the series with perfect uniformity. The effect is even better than that in the kinetoscope, the pictures being much larger and consequently more distinct, Mr Wray, I might add, is a local man, and this fact will give an increased interest to the exhibition on Thursday night.

Bradford Daily Telegraph, Bradford, vendredi 24 avril 1896, p. 2.

THE CINETOGRAPH EXHIBITION IN BRADFORD.-This machine, which is a development of Mr Edison's kinetoscope, was exhibited in the saloon of the Mechanics Institute yesterday by the Scientific Entertainment Company. Life-size moving figures are projected on to a large screen from a specially constructed electric lantern, to which is attached the cinetograph apparatus. The rapidity of the movements of the figures are very realistic and life-like. The machine used by this company embodies a diaphragm arrangement, which is the patent of Mr Cecil Wray, of Bradford. The photographs pass through the machine at the rate of about 25 per second, each photo being through to a standstill when projected.

Bradford Daily Telegraph, Bradford, vendredi 12 juin 1896, p. 2.

BRADFORD PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
The members of the Bradford Photographic Society on Monday evening held their third annual conversazione in the Unity Rooms, Sunbridge Road. An excellent programme, full of variety, had been arranged by the committee, who, one and all, spared no effort to make the affair enjoyable.
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The rest of the first part of the programme was made up of selections of vocal and instrumental music, &c., by Mr A. Robert-shaw, Mr. J. Wallace, Miss Cole, Mr. T. Riley, Mr. A. Irlam, and an exhibition of the Kineoptoscope by Mr Cecil Wray, the "animated pictures" including the arrival of a train, the "Morning Bath," Niagara Falls, the Carnival Dance from the "Gaiety Girl," the death scene from the "Trilby" burlesque, eating water-lemons for a wager, &c. The second part of the programme consisted of a dance and concert.

Bradford Daily Telegraph, Bradford, mercredi 9 décembre 1896, p. 3.