Indeed, it is often a wonder to me that witnesses of
ordinary events who are called upon in court to relate what they
saw after a considerable lapse of time are as accurate as they
are, considering the questioning they often go through from
interested parties, neighbours and friends, and the constant and
often biased rehearsing of the event. The court asks the witness
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. How
can he? In fact, I am often surprised that there is such a
resemblance between the testimony and the actual facts of the
case!
"But I have here a little witness that never lies, and, mindful of
the fallibility of ordinary witnesses, I called it in. It is a
new, compact, little motion camera which has just been perfected
to do automatically what the big moving-picture making cameras
do."
He touched one of the little black boxes such as we had seen him
install in the jewelry department at Trimble's.
"Each of these holds one hundred and sixty feet of film," he
resumed, "enough to last three minutes, taking, say, sixteen
pictures to the foot and running about one foot a second.
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