The Kinetoscope

kineto- ("movement") and scopos ("to view")

The kinetoscope was a large box that people would look into and view motion picture. It wasn’t a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for film projection. It created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film with sequential images on it. Much like when drawings move in a flip book.

Edison was inspired to make the kinetoscope when he met

Eadweard Muybridge. In 1888 in orange new jersey, Edison attended

One of Muybridge’s lectures after in October 1888, Edison filed

a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U.S. Patent Office

announcing his plans to create a device that would do "for the Eye

what the phonograph does for the Ear".

Eadweard Muybridge. In 1888 in orange new jersey, Edison attended

One of Muybridge’s lectures after in October 1888, Edison filed

a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U.S. Patent Office

announcing his plans to create a device that would do "for the Eye

what the phonograph does for the Ear".

Thomas Edison

The man credited for this amazing invention is Thomas Edison. He decided to come up with this incredible idea of having moving pictures with out sound. This was done by august 31,1897. most of his made films would get destroyed simply because of the films nitrate, however Edison was clever enough to make paper copies of the individual frames in which he called contact prints.

This all started when Eadweard Muybridge , a very successful man in projecting series of imagines in successive phases of movement decided to visit the inventor. This visit

stimulated and boosted Thomas ambition of inventing a motion picture camera.

Eadweard Muybridge put up a good offer in which it stated the bought should combine their ideas the “Zoopraxiscope and phonograph” and work together to make

a motion picture camera. Edsion realising that Muybridge Zoopraxiscope was not a very practical or efficient way of recording motion, he did not buy the idea and did not

go with the partnership. He decided to take on this challenge all alone.