Phantoscope

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The Phantoscope was an early motion picture projector whose design formed the basis for later commercial projectors like the Vitascope.

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Label Occurrences
Phantoscope canonical 2
Jenkins–Armat Phantoscope 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cinema technology
early motion picture projector
film projector
componentOf early film projection systems
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developedInPeriod 1890s
fieldOfUse early cinema exhibition
entertainment
followedBy more advanced commercial projectors such as the Vitascope
hasAlternativeName Phantoscope
surface form: Jenkins–Armat Phantoscope
hasDesignInfluenceOn Vitascope
hasFeature film transport mechanism
lamp-based illumination for projection
lens system for image magnification
hasInventor Charles Francis Jenkins
Thomas Armat
industryImpact helped establish projected motion pictures as a commercial medium
isBasisFor Vitascope
notableFor being one of the first practical motion picture projectors
influencing later commercial projectors
precededBy Kinetoscope
surface form: Kinetoscope peephole viewer
projectionMethod intermittent motion mechanism
shutter-based image projection
relatedTo Vitascope
surface form: Edison Vitascope

Kinetoscope
Lumière Cinématographe
technologyType mechanical projector
usedFor projecting motion pictures onto a screen
public exhibition of moving images
usesMedium celluloid film

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Vitascope basedOn Phantoscope
Phantoscope hasAlternativeName Phantoscope
this entity surface form: Jenkins–Armat Phantoscope
Charles Francis Jenkins coInvented Phantoscope