Motion Picture Was Born: Captain from Castile, product of three years' study of Spanish source material dealing with the conquest of Mexico, was sold in 1944, for motion picture production, before publication. It was translated into 18 languages, including Pakistani and Turkish. Prince of Foxes, a sweeping Renaissance tapestry, published in 1947, also became a motion picture. The King's Cavalier (1950) and Lord Vanity (1953), the latter also sold to the motion pictures, were likewise immensely popular.
By the end of 1896 films were being screened regu in the principal cities of Europe and America wit! Vitascope, the American Biograph, the Theatrograph Phototachyscope, the Bioscop, the Kinetoscop, and a of other ingeniously designed projectors. The techno of bulk printing, described above, was at once applie producing the vast number of release prints neede home and abroad. The great twentieth-century med of the motion picture was born, full fledged.
Such findings would go unnoticed without alert observation, intensive study, and erudite comprehension in the laboratory or clinic.) Some well-known examples of serendipitous discovery include the use of certain antihistamines for the prevention of motion sickness, the therapeutic value of the sulfonamides, and perhaps the most picturesque—a suitable plot for a historical novel or motion picture—the discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin. |
