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Instead, they were to be viewed in a machine called the Kinetoscope, which was basically a large cabinet with a viewfinder opening that enabled an individual to watch a film loop.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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The earliest form of exhibiting apparatus, known as the Kinetoscope, was a machine in which a positive print from the negative obtained in the camera was exhibited directly to the eye through a peep-hole; but in 1895 the films were applied to modified forms of magic lanterns, by which the images are projected upon a screen.
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The earliest form of exhibiting apparatus, known as the Kinetoscope, was
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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These shows, while popular for a time in the United States and Europe, could only be “peeped,” one viewer at a time, in another contraption bearing an Edison patent, the boxlike Kinetoscope.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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These shows, while popular for a time in the United States and Europe, could only be “peeped,” one viewer at a time, in another contraption bearing an Edison patent, the boxlike Kinetoscope.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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So the Kinetoscope footage of two men waltzing together "was made before the invention of women".
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Hours could be spent here studying how moving images have been made and by whom, and the residue they've left in popular culture: spinning early optical toys such as a Phenakistoscope or seeing how Edison films were once viewed on a Kinetoscope, engaging with interactive exhibits and studying artifacts like makeup, set designs, scripts, costumes, fan magazines, cameras, projection devices and early video games.
How Film Transforms Our Reality Kristin M. Jones 2011
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August 31 is the day in 1897 when Thomas Edison patented the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope.
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August 31 is the day in 1897 when Thomas Edison patented the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope.
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August 31 is the day in 1897 when Thomas Edison patented the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope.
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