DUFF C. LAW was born
September 20, 1886, in Camden, N. J., the eldest son of James D. and Agnes
Duff Law. He received his education in the public schools of Camden,
Lancaster (Pennsylvania) and Huntly (Aberdeenshire), finishing up with a
short term at Mercersburg (Pennsylvania) Academy. Although fond of reading
and study, his mental activities have found their greatest outlet in the
field of invention. In every department of motion pictures, he has made
improvements, and for years has been recognized as a qualified witness and
court expert in all details of motography. He has to his credit many
patents and secrets relating to super-sensitization, and the whole range
of chemical, optical and mechanical principles in connection with black
and white motion-pictures, also motion-pictures in the true and complete
colours of Nature, and the synchronizing of motion-pictures with voice and
music. He has also exercised his inventive faculties in other lines, his
latest triumph being motion-pictures in stereoscopic style. He takes great
pride in his combination laboratory, studio and faetory at Wissahickon, on
the edge of beautiful Fairmount Park.
Mr. Duff C. Law, like his father, is
a family man, having married, in 1911, a Scotch lass, Miss Janet Fyfe,
from Aberdeen. They reside in their own home on Harmon Road, Roxboro,
convenient to "Clovernook," and have been blessed with two sons and a
daughter: Norman James, Kenneth Russell, and Lorna. Mr. Law is a young man
of the highest ideals, of tireless energy, and if spared is destined to
"rive his father’s bonnet." Although an American by birth and citizenship,
and loyal to the core, Mr. Duff C. Law carries with him the atmosphere of
Scotland and a never-failing pride in her people and their achievements.
