The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. It was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The concept was also used by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1889, and developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.
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The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. It was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The concept was also used by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1889, and subsequently developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. The first public demonstration of theKinetoscope was held at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on May 9, 1893. In 1895, Edison introduced the Kinetophone, which joined the Kinetsoscope with a cylinder phonograph. In June 1889, John Carbutt began working with celluloid sheets, that could be wrapped around the cylinder, providing a far superior base for the recording of photographs. When the film became unacceptably apparent, the bromide emulsion used on the cylinder became the superior material for positive images. In May 1892, the first negatives of the film were made, which could be viewed through a microscope-like tube. The negatives were then transferred to a collodion to provide a rotating base to provide synchronized sound, while the images, hardly operatic, were viewed in a far larger scale, with a stop-and-go film movement. This was the first time a film was used for a motion picture, and led to the development of the sound recording device, which was used in movies such as “The Godfather” and “The Wizard of Oz” in the 1930s and ’40s. In the 1950s, the Edison lab began working on a film projector that would allow people to see and hear a whole opera as perfectly as if actually present.
The Edison lab, though, worked as a collaborative organization. Laboratory assistants were assigned to work on many projects while Edison supervised and involved himself and participated to varying degrees. While Edison seems to have conceived the idea and initiated the experiments, Dickson apparently performed the bulk of the experimentation, leading most modern scholars to assign Dickson with the major credit for turning the concept into a practical reality. In March 1889, a second caveat was filed, in which the proposed motion picture device was given a name, Kinetoscope, derived from the Greek roots kineto- and scopos. In March 1891, a prototype was shown to a convention of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs on May 20, 1891. In April 1892 the first commercial Kinetoscopic presentations were held in New York City. In July 1891 the first negative images of a movie were made and shown at the New York State Fair. In November 1891 a prototype for a movie projector was also shown at a New York state fair. In December 1894, a film projection system was introduced that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video. In January 1894 the first film projector was introduced in the United States. In February 1895, a French inventor submitted a patent application submitted in France and the U. S. for a process using roll film.
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