Kinetoscope

In 1888, the inventor Thomas Edison, and his assistant William Dickson, set out to create a device that could record moving pictures. In 1890 they unveiled the Kinetograph, a motion picture camera, and later in 1892 they invented the kinetoscope, is a forerunner of the motion-picture film projector. In it, a strip of film was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole, and providing motion or cinema perspective(s).


Figure 1: Kinetoscope (1888)

The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler. Similar to Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time.


Figure 2: Mutoscope (1899)