Mutoscope

Manufacturer	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Mutoscope Gaumont
Name	Mutoscope
Place	New York (United States)
Date	1898
Register	1360

Device patented by the American Hermann Casler in 1894, based on an idea by W.K.L. Dickson, Edison's assistant in the creation of the kinetoscope. The mutoscope was based on the technique of the folioscope, but in this case, the cards printed with the frames of a film were placed in radial form and attached to a horizontal shaft, which was rotated with a handle operated by the viewer himself. A tab immobilised each photograph in front of the viewfinder for a brief moment, creating the illusion of the moving image. This device arose as a competitor of the Edison kinetoscope, since the visual effect and type of moving images were very similar. It was also installed in public premises and operated with a coin. In 1895, Casler, Dickson and two other partners formed the American Mutoscope Company, which in 1899 became the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. They stopped manufacturing the mutoscope in 1907 and permanently gave up the business of their direct exploitation in slot machine arcades in the early 1920s. Up to then, they dominated the business of slot movie viewers, supplanting Edison's kinetoscope from the outset. In 1897 they expanded to Europe, creating the Brit

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