kinetoscope
Americannoun
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The business allowed customers to access entertainment — music, speeches and, eventually, brief kinetoscope movies — for a nickel a spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Heise, too, was dissatisfied enough with the state of boxing-cat-capturing technology that he built his own, working with Dickson on the development of the kinetoscope.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2018
He paved the way for Eugen Sandow, a “theatrical athlete” who fought a lion, posed in skimpy clothes and flexed for Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope in 1894.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2016
Film production was originally based in and around New York, where Thomas Edison first debuted the kinetoscope in 1893.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Like the moving pictures of the kinetoscope when the reels are reversed, is the picture that imagination can unroll if we grant the possibility of a lapse from civilization to savagery.
From Craftsmanship in Teaching by William Chandler Bagley
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