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Kinetoscope

The kinetoscope, conceived by the American inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, was one of the first cinematographic viewing appliances. It is a kind of box, one and a half metres high, in which, via a peephole, a single viewer can see unfold on a loop the images of a negative film 17m long, at 48 images per second. Its low brightness did not allow for public projection, but it was on the basis of similar techniques that the Lumière brothers constructed the first cinema ‘projectors’ such as we understand them today.

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