Kinetoscope

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The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cinema apparatus
early film technology
motion picture exhibition device
category Edison inventions
History of cinema
coinType nickel
coInventor William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
commercialModel Kinetoscope self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kinetoscope parlor
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developedBy Edison Manufacturing Company
displayType peephole viewer
distributionRegion Europe
United States of America
surface form: United States
era 1890s
exhibitedContentType actualities
boxing matches
comic scenes
vaudeville acts
filmDirection vertical feed
filmLoopConfiguration endless loop
filmPerforationType Edison standard perforations
filmTransportMechanism continuous movement
firstCommercialParlorLocation New York City
firstCommercialParlorOpeningYear 1894
firstPublicExhibitionLocation Brooklyn Museum
surface form: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
illuminationSource electric lamp
influenced development of movie theaters
early film production practices
inspiredBy Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies
inventor Thomas Alva Edison
surface form: Thomas Edison
materialUsed wooden cabinet
medium 35 mm film
notableFor individual film viewing experience
pioneering commercial cinema
operatedBy coin insertion
patentCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
patentFiledBy Thomas Alva Edison
surface form: Thomas Edison
patentYear 1891
primaryUse commercial film exhibition
entertainment
relatedDevice Kinetograph
Vitascope
successor projected cinema
supersededBy film projector
typicalFilmLength short films
typicalRunningTime under one minute
viewingInterface magnifying lens peephole
viewingMode single viewer
yearOfCommercialIntroduction 1894
yearOfFirstPublicDemonstration 1893

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Subject: Kinetoscope
Description of subject: The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Thomas Alva Edison notableWork Kinetoscope
Kinetoscope commercialModel Kinetoscope self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kinetoscope parlor
Edison Manufacturing Company product Kinetoscope
this entity surface form: Kinetoscope films
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson designed Kinetoscope
this entity surface form: Edison Kinetoscope viewing machine
Kinetograph relatedTo Kinetoscope
Edison Laboratory associatedWith Kinetoscope
Black Maria studio inventionUsed Kinetoscope
Black Maria replica relatedTo Kinetoscope
Phantoscope relatedTo Kinetoscope
Phantoscope precededBy Kinetoscope
this entity surface form: Kinetoscope peephole viewer
Lumière Cinématographe precededBy Kinetoscope
this entity surface form: Edison Kinetoscope