kinetoscope
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Thomas Edison’s early Kinetoscope films from the late 19th century, short looped films seen via a viewing cabinet, come to mind.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023
The first public movie screening was in Paris, in 1895, using a device inspired by Thomas Edison's electric Kinetoscope.
From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2020
But another surprise, along with Thomas Edison’s seconds-long 1894 Kinetoscope clip of a heavily mustachioed man sneezing, is “Ghostbusters.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2015
One looked through a peephole at the top of a Kinetoscope, a waist-high cabinet in which a light illuminated the frames of a continuous film loop.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2012
They saw the first moving pictures on Edison’s Kinetoscope, and they watched, stunned, as lightning chattered from Nikola Tesla’s body.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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