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.
Annabelle Moore
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Annabelle Moore, also known as Peerless Annabelle, was an American dancer and actress who appeared in numerous early silent films. She was the original Gibson Girl in the 1907 Ziegfeld Follies.
Kinetoscope
…the foundation for the next century of cinematography. 1 3/8–inch (35 mm) filmstrip of the Edison production Butterfly Dance (c. 1894–95), featuring Annabelle Whitford Moore, in the format that would become standard for motion picture photography around the world. On May 20, 1891, the first invitational demonstration of a…
Whitford in 1895