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Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—the Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip...
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1891
5.20.1891
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1894
4.14.1894
The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1897
8.31.1897
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.