Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films: A History to 1896

by Ray Phillips

Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured almost 1,000 Kinetoscopes and produced some 250 films to show in them. A million people worldwide first saw motion pictures through these devices.

This book describes in detail how Kinetoscopes worked and how they were sold, and describes the parlors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305080
• ISBN13: 9780313305085
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"