13 Facts About Kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.

The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video.

Instrumental to the birth of American movie culture, the Kinetoscope had a major impact in Europe; its influence abroad was magnified by Edison's decision not to seek international patents on the device, facilitating numerous imitations of and improvements on the technology.

The Kinetoscope application included a plan for a stereoscopic film projection system that was apparently abandoned.

Kinetoscope production had been delayed in part because of Dickson's absence of more than eleven weeks early in the year with a nervous breakdown.

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The Kinetograph and Kinetoscope were modified, possibly with Rector's assistance, so they could manage filmstrips three times longer than had previously been used.

Kinetoscope was gaining notice on the other side of the Atlantic.

Reports suggest that in July 1893, a Kinetoscope accompanied by a cylinder phonograph had been presented at the Chicago World's Fair.

In March 1895, Edison offered the device for sale; involving no technological innovations, it was a Kinetoscope whose modified cabinet included an accompanying cylinder phonograph.

Kinetoscope owners were offered kits with which to retrofit their equipment.

Kinetoscope seconded one of his lab's technicians to the Kinetoscope Company to initiate the work, without informing Dickson.

In 1912, he introduced the ambitious and expensive Home Projecting Kinetoscope, which employed a unique format of three parallel columns of sequential frames on one strip of film—the middle column ran through the machine in the reverse direction from its neighbors.

Much of the Edison company's most creative work in the motion picture field from 1897 on involved the use of Kinetoscope-related patents in threatened or actual lawsuits for the purpose of financially pressuring or blocking commercial rivals.