The earliest form of exhibiting apparatus, known as the Kinetoscope, was. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
Instead, they were to be viewed in a machine called the Kinetoscope, which was basically a large cabinet with a viewfinder opening that enabled an individual to watch a film loop. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
The earliest form of exhibiting apparatus, known as the Kinetoscope, was a machine in which a positive print from the negative obtained in the camera was exhibited directly to the eye through a peep-hole; but in 1895 the films were applied to modified forms of magic lanterns, by which the images are projected upon a screen. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2] Reference
August 31 is the day in 1897 when Thomas Edison patented the first movie projector, the Kinetoscope. From Wordnik.com. [And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
This followed by a year the opening of Edison's Kinetoscope Parlor (New York City) where the motion picture (peepshow) could be viewed by only one person at a time. From Wordnik.com. [1873] Reference
These shows, while popular for a time in the United States and Europe, could only be “peeped,” one viewer at a time, in another contraption bearing an Edison patent, the boxlike Kinetoscope. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
The successes of Lumiere and Edison in photographing objects in motion in 1896 led to the first primitive movies, which were shown in the U.S. and France in what were then called Kinetoscope and Cinematograph parlours. From Wordnik.com. [Observations of a Canadian Multinational: the U.S. Experience] Reference
Hours could be spent here studying how moving images have been made and by whom, and the residue they've left in popular culture: spinning early optical toys such as a Phenakistoscope or seeing how Edison films were once viewed on a Kinetoscope, engaging with interactive exhibits and studying artifacts like makeup, set designs, scripts, costumes, fan magazines, cameras, projection devices and early video games. From Wordnik.com. [How Film Transforms Our Reality] Reference
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
Anyway, it might be worthwhile to take a look at some of those early Kinetoscope shorts. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Exploding Kinetoscope, counterproductive as always, proudly presents its Favorite Films of. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Kinetoscope, is quite similar so far as its general operations in handling the film are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
Kinetoscope, or its forerunner the Wheel of Life: the Mozartean opera, when most dramatic, is a musical Wheel of Life. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
On this day in 1897 Thomas Alva Edison was granted a patent for one of his latest inventions, a primitive motion-picture device he dubbed the Kinetoscope. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
The reproducing machine, or, as it is called in practice, the Projecting Kinetoscope, is quite similar so far as its general operations in handling the film are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2] Reference
Even geniuses make mistakes: the Kinetoscope would give rise to motion-picture projectors - which transformed what was a small and solitary experience into something large and communal - and, with it, the art form (and business) we call film. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Women's Genre Fiction article - An Experiment with a Kinetoscope and a Phonograph. From Wordnik.com. [An Experiment with a Kinetoscope and a Phonograph] Reference
1894: Kinetoscope The Kinetoscope, in which viewers peer into a cabinet containing a rapidly moving reel of film, is first demonstrated in New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Netflix Boss Plots Life After the DVD] Reference
The Exploding Kinetoscope: http://explodingkinetoscope.blogspot.com/. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-26] Reference
Christopher Stangl, The Exploding Kinetoscope: http://explodingkinetoscope.blogspot.com/. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
Edison's Kinetoscope. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
Kinetoscope Parlor, New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Subject Index Page 40] Reference
Kinetoscope at Panoptikon: A Steampunk Cotillion. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
A Kinetoscope. ". From Wordnik.com. [Knocking the Neighbors] Reference
Exploding Kinetoscope. From Wordnik.com. [Film Experience Blog] Reference
"The Kinetoscope Parlor?". From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Exploding Kinetoscope, The. From Wordnik.com. [31 Screams: Sandra Shaw] Reference
Photographing Motion -- Edison's Kinetoscope -- Lumiere's. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
If one were to attempt a summarization of cinema's history in a few words, he could exclaim the names of Lumiere, Melies, Griffith, Eisenstein, Lang, Ford, and Godard; and the answer would be correct, but if he were to choose to constitute his answer with terms such as Phantasmagoria, Zoetrope, Kinetoscope, Bioscope, Kodak, Arri, Michell, Bolex, and Ampex, would it be wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
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