Thomas Edison
Edison originally got his idea for the
patent of the kintoscope on
October 17, 1888, saying that he would make a machine that could record
and reproduce objects in movement.
The design for the kinetoscope was made of a closed
cabinet in which the film was spooled. To operate the
machine, the user opened the top and looked through
a small hole, and as the film was moved across a series
of rollers, a backlight would lighten it, creating the illusion of a moving picture, as long as the film was rotated at the correct speed. When the kinetoscope was first shown to the public in 1894, it became a big hit.
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