Film projector

This projector used a non-flammable cellulose acetate film for the first time. The film was 22 mm wide, and the frames, 6 mm wide, were placed in rows of three. It's the smallest film frame format ever marketed. The advantage was that a small thirty-metre roll of this film could contain almost as much content as a three-hundred-metre roll of the 35 mm format. Considering that in 1912 many releases still lasted only one reel, this meant that users of this device could get the same films they enjoyed in the room on a single reel and without mountings. Edison's Home Kinetoscope was one of the first home theatre projectors to be somewhat successful, although no specific camera was ever marketed for this projector. That is why, in order to watch films with this device, people had to buy them from Edison's company.