Kinetoscope
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The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but i
Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer at top of cabinet
Sheet of images from one of the three Monkeyshines films (c. 1889–90) produced as tests of an early version of the Kinetoscope
An acre in size, Edison's exhibit at the Exposition Universelle included an entire electrical power station.
Charles Kayser of the Edison lab seated behind the Kinetograph. Portability was not among the camera's virtues.
Movie camera
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A movie camera is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen. In c
An IMAX cinema camera, displayed at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England.
Illustration of a "portable" camera obscura in Kircher's Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1645)
The chronophotographic gun invented by Étienne-Jules Marey.