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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...
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    Trademark Office; outlining his plans for the device, subsequently named the Kinetoscope. Dickson, then the Edison company's official photographer, was assigned...
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    placed from October 17, 1894, the first kinetoscopes in London. At the same time, the French company Kinétoscope Edison Michel et Alexis Werner bought these...
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  • presentation of the Kinetoscope takes place at the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City. 1894 – Kinetoscope viewing parlors...
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    West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. Construction of the building, which included a tar-paper-covered dark...
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    independently sold the Phantoscope to The Kinetoscope Company. The company realized that their Kinetoscope would soon be a thing of the past with the...
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    endeavored to correct the flaws they perceived in the kinetograph and the kinetoscope, to develop a machine with both sharper images and better illumination...
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  • viewing machine called the Kinetoscope. May 20, 1891 – Thomas Edison holds the first public presentation of his Kinetoscope for the National Federation...
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    Edison's Kinetoscope, it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system...
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    A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie...
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  • at a time through "peep show" devices such as the Electrotachyscope, Kinetoscope and the Mutoscope. Not much later, exhibitors managed to project films...
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    claimed that he shot the film in August 1894 – before the arrival of the kinetoscope in France. This is questioned by historians, who consider that a functional...
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    presented in 1894 and it was through Thomas Edison's device called a kinetoscope. It was made for individual viewing only. Comedy short films were produced...
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  • short silent films made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope, and are believed to be the first films shot in the United States. Monkeyshines...
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    would be synchronised with his phonograph, he eventually introduced the kinetoscope as a silent motion picture viewer in 1893 and later "kinetophone" versions...
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    motion picture cameras. It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893, and is the earliest known...
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  • and early cinema technician. He was a partner in Woodville Latham's Kinetoscope Exhibition Company (later the Lambda Company) during the mid-1890s, working...
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    History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph is a book written by siblings William Kennedy Dickson and Antonia Dickson about the history...
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    Woodville Latham was the father of Grey Latham and Otway Latham, owners of a kinetoscope parlor in New York City. In December 1894 Latham and his two sons formed...
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    self-defense. Her stage acts were filmed for one of Thomas Edison's earliest Kinetoscopes in 1894. Since her death, her story has been adapted for stage musicals...
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  • "All-American Deep-Dish Comedy: PRETTY PEACHES (1978)". The Exploding Kinetoscope. Retrieved 27 September 2013. "All-American Deep-Dish Comedy: PRETTY...
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  • or early 1893. The film was made to be viewed using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. In 2010, Newark Athlete was selected for preservation in the United...
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    the musical soundtrack. Introduced in 1912, the Edison Home Projecting Kinetoscope was one of the first successful home theater devices. Although it used...
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  • prototype of the Kinetoscope which moves horizontally. May 20 – First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype horizontal kinetoscope: Dickson Greeting...
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    motion-picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's kinetoscope. In the following decades, production of silent film greatly expanded...
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    first exploit became the kinetoscope. A few public demonstrations occurred since 9 May 1893, before a first public Kinetoscope parlor was opened on 14...
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    possibly inspired by Reynaud's Théâtre Optique. A prototype of the Kinetoscope was demonstrated to a convention of the National Federation of Women's...
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  • director of 2005's critically acclaimed short film Kinetoscope, a twisted horror fantasy. Kinetoscope was an Official Selection at: Santa Barbara International...
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  • 14 – The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City. June...
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    cinema in 1895, motion pictures were presented in peep boxes, such as the kinetoscope and the mutoscope. These remained relatively popular for erotic and pornographic...
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