Kinetoscope [replica]

Manufacturer	Ray Phillips. Film Technology Company, Inc. Edison Kinetoscope
Name	Kinetoscope
Place	United States
Date	1994
Register	3261

Faithful replica of the kinetoscope made in the 1990s by the American collector Ray Phillips. Thomas Alva Edison introduced this device in 1891 and launched it on the market it in 1894. The kinetoscope was an individual film viewer consisting of a wooden box one hundred and twenty-three centimetres high, with a viewfinder on top, which allowed one to see the images of a film that was shooting at high speed continuously inside the device. The 35 mm films with side perforations, fifteen metres long and with approximately seven hundred and fifty frames, were mounted inside the device in the form of complicated loops. The average viewing was between thirty and forty images per second. With the kinetoscope, one could already see cinema individually, but the images could not yet be projected, asthe film's intermittent drag system was missing.

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