"Рукопожатие" (A Hand Shake) [1892]

Two men shake hands for the Kinetograph. Here&another of the test films that William Dickson made for Edison before he perfected motion pictures. It shows a man and a woman grasping hands. It lasts for four seconds, it&fuzzy and clumsy and unless you know what is going on, it&very difficult to figure it out. You can see the man&shirt and the woman&blouse, brilliant whites, but other than that, very little. Nonetheless, the clarity of the print is vastly improved over the previous year&test strips. It would still be more than a year until Dickson had something suitable for exhibition, but he was making progress.