kinetoscope
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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
The problem did not arise with the kinetoscope only but had interested the preceding generations who amused themselves with the phenakistoscope and the stroboscopic disks or the magic cylinder of the zoötrope and bioscope.
From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Münsterberg, Hugo
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