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Rare Ed. Messter Company, Mother of Pearl Opera
Currency:USD
Category:Antiques
Start Price:100.00 USD
Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 USD
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100.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2015 May 16 @ 13:33UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Rare Ed. Messter Company, Mother of Pearl Opera Binocular glasses with original leather case c. 1890's to early 20th Century. Ed. Messter company became Germany's first film factory in the 19th Century. The inventor of products was Oskar Messter, he was born in Berlin, where his father had founded a company selling and manufacturing optical equipment in 1859. Messter built and sold his first movie projector in 1896, one of the first projectors using a Geneva drive to achieve the intermittent motion of the film. He is often credited with inventing the application of the Geneva drive, but both Max Gliewe (also in Berlin) and Robert W. Paul in London independently built projectors using this mechanism for film transport at about the same time. Gliewe later joined Messter's company, and together they produced highly successful projectors. Messter also immediately entered the film product business and built the first film studio in Germany. In 1897, he already offered 84 films showing a wide variety of scenes. Four years later, he restructured his company into separate firms for film production, distribution, and the manufacturing of optical equipment, including film projectors. He did the first projection of sound film in Germany at the Apollo theatre in Berlin in 1903 with a system called "Biophon" in which a gramophone was coupled to the projector. From 1909 to 1917, his film company produced 350 films. In 1918, he sold his movie companies to the newly founded UFA._x000D_He donated his collection of historical film equipment to the German Museum in 1932. Messter died in 1943. (Size: See second photo for measurement.) Photos are part of the description representing the condition report. Pangaea Auctions urges Bidder's to view all attached photos.
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