The Kinetoscope

In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part-time photographer, William Dickson to create a motion picture camera. They created a series of short films that could be viewed on a coin-operated, peephole viewing cabinet called a kinetoscope.
“Edison” premieres January 27, 2015 on PBS American Experience.

[@vitoscaletta3886]

I can only slightly imagine what a magic this must have been back in the days. In my opinion it even must have an greater impact on the people than the IPhone, because it truly was so mindblowing that everyone had to see it to believe it!

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing AmericanExperiencePBS

[@livelongandprosper70]

did the Kinetoscope have one or 2 HDMI ports ??

[@juaricolas]

Actually in 1890 the HDMI port didnt exist yet. At that time only existed the AV port...

[@MaximTendu]

@@juaricolas HDMI ports were popular in Japan since the Meiji Era. Better check your facts before posting, dude.

[@bleepthebom]

XD

[@bleepthebom]

@@MaximTendu I'm pretty sure you are right dude XD

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[@rosannasmom1]

The kinetoscope parlor in New York was located at 1155 Broadway, now the location of the Broadway Plaza Hotel.

[@beatingpewdswithnovids8142]

Who’s here from school🙋🏽‍♂️

[@Jeffrey314159]

Is a 'Kinetoscope Parlor' another name for a 'Nickelodeon'?? Checkout the Nethercutt Museum in Los Angeles

[@PocketFullofCatnip]

The name "Nickelodeon" didn't come on the scene until 1905, according to film historian David Robinson. This is after the heyday of the Kinetoscope, which were only popular for a few years in the mid-1890s. Nickelodeons showed projected films.

[@PetieFr]

But isn't that one in 2:14 a kinetophone?

[@PocketFullofCatnip]

Yes. But Kinetophones are still Kinetoscopes, with added sound features. There's just no good extant photo of a person using a plain Kinetoscope that is as good as that one!

[@greta8849]

@@PocketFullofCatnip it's basically a phone with video features. It's basically skype. In the 1880s We are living in an altered timeline. Our past is changing, in order to allow for the technologies that we have today. The more advanced our technology becomes, the more we will "rediscover" the technologies of the 1800s, which will begin to blow our minds, because we've never known about them. Did you know that the Kinetophone was basically a video phone, in the 1880s? Most people don't. You would think they would have taught us this in school. You would think that if we had that tech in the 1880s, that the video phone would be a lot more popular. Well, guess what, they had video phones in the 1920s. AT&T had offices that allowed people to make video phone calls, back in the 1920s. Did you know this? The ability to make video calls is something most people would attribute to the internet.

[@PocketFullofCatnip]

@@greta8849 I know about Kinetophones because I wrote an article about them a few years ago (they were first available to the general public in 1894, not the 1880s), but I did not know about what you're calling video phones of the 1920s, or the AT&T video phone calls--do tell. What was the name of the technology?

[@jacobgoodman6296]

@@greta8849 What was it?

[@argonota]

Before MAREY a few other people manage to get "motion" Pictures (Le prince, Jansen, Muybridge....)

[@dant4774]

are those actually real footages of the kinetoscope movies?

[@treyoreilly1403]

Yeah

[@robertag46]

the teacher played this vid

[@sleepy6425]

2:58

[@ananhuang4475]

Why didn't the videos have sound?

[@livelongandprosper70]

i think they did, the ppl were wearing stethoscope type earphones

[@scoutpotatoe4119]

anan huang Back then they didn’t have any nowadays stuff like phones they didn’t know how to make it with sound

[@romeocano1919]

Sound was recorded using phonograph

[@inisipisTV]

A lot of these footages lost their accompanying Audio Cylinders that match the images.

[@LinkRocks]

Sound on film wasn't available until 1928. They'd yet to create the technology to put both sound and film together until that point, although they were trying for many years.

[@rubydaly3421]

Little do they know, W.K.L. Dickson was actually primarily the person responsible for advances in film. Edison just got the credit. *sigh*

[@aloisioreis567]

Nope. Edison worked in a "Kinetoscope-kind" in 1887, but he gave up on the idea because he thought it wouldn't be interesting. He was such an inventer, a really good one.

[@rodentsofrandomness9203]

Edison definitely helped and had a lot of great ideas (and he loved his patents) but he had some helpers in making them come to life. He still deserves credit, albeit certainly not ALL of it.

[@agoodjoe4455]

Edison invented TikTok before TikTok was cool

[@oldteapot4715]

Wait, Tiktok is cool?

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

@@oldteapot4715 kind of

[@GEnghis559]

@@oldteapot4715 not really

[@williamcrowe2576]

Do me a favor; don't ever mention that app again.

[@ksteiger]

Yeah in a way that's true. Short sequences of unknown people just doing stuff.

[@samishahzad1455]

Most beautiful inventor of movies first Thomas Edison. Greatest rest in peace

[@LinkRocks]

Edison didn't invent moving pictures.

[@rodentsofrandomness9203]

William Dickson has left the chat

[@joeshaver7884]

The Lumiere Brothers are the true inventors of movies and Melies the first true filmmaker

[@maxpayne2574]

More like Edison payed Eastman to perfect the camera. Edison was a businessman that put young desperate inventors to work then got rich from the patents.

[@Laura-fw1jo]

Louis La Prince instead

[@rudythewriter8088]

Dickson should get more credit than Edison...ugh

[@wizcombo]

Edison's thievery reputation would make me believe that

[@inisipisTV]

Dickson only specialized in the Optics. Edison is the one with idea and vision to make it to motion picture. A lot people have simple minded delusion that an invention is made by one person, in fact most are made with process of numerous people. Take Tesla for example, people credit him in the invention of the AC generator, in fact he only developed his own version of a AC alternator that a group Hungarian scientist already had working years before him, and Westinghouse brought Tesla to America so he won't have to buy the patent from the Hungarian Ganz company. Tesla with the help of other great American inventors would develope a better Electrical transmission system for US.

[@Ekaterine_Kav]

@@inisipisTV But Edison didn't come up with the idea, did he. He wanted to remake what Marey already invented. Louis Le Prince had already made the first film camera. All Edison did was let Dickson do the job, which he would later take credit for. He sued AM&B over and over again until they collaborated and started MPPC (Motion picture patent company), which was designed to control the monopoly of film production, distribution and exhibition. When the independent filmstudios fought back he hired detectives and sued almost every company between 1909-19011. He claimed that they were using the Lathem Loop and other patented devices. And eventually, in 1912 the court ruled against MPPC (and therefore Edison) as he had no right to patent the Lathem Loop (Grey and Otway Lathem invented this technique and Edison just claimed it as his own invention).

[@curiousjorge934]

@@inisipisTV Thanks for being a diamond in the rough. You opened my eyes to the whole Edison vs Tesla who stole what argument.

[@colinsmith3945]

The Elon Musk of the 1800s.

[@Langkowski]

Of course some of them also showed porn

[@HMV101]

I think you are getting mixed up with the ‘Mutoscope’. While not really ‘pornographic’ the Mutoscopes often depicted what some people considered risqué subjects like ‘What the Butler Saw’ (usually a lady partially undressing). Edison kinetoscope parlours, as far as we know, never depicted ‘naughty’ subjects.

[@elsyperez5452]

boringgggggggggg

[@TMira-id1er]

then dont watch it lmao

[@mew1673]

@@TMira-id1er some peoples teacher made them just why r u down here?

[@Tunechi65]

dummy. this is what allows you to post on these websites. innovation like this. I currently work for the company edison started.

[@adityanath3570]

@@Tunechi65 you work for GE?

[@user-ef6gv4wv1l]

truly