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
The following year he represented a lady listening to music by telegraph; and the kinetoscope is only now waiting to fulfil Mr. du Maurier's forecast of many years ago.
From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)
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