kinetoscope in English

noun
1
an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole.
Like a film version of the book ‘Low Life,’ these kinetoscopes offer a fascinating glimpse into lowbrow urban pop culture at the turn of the century: sex, death, crime and bloodsports.

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1. Also in 1896 Fatima's Coochie-Coochie Dance was released as a short nickelodeon kinetoscope/film featuring a gyrating belly dancer named Fatima.

2. The Cinematograph was powered by a hand crank, and it improved on the kinetoscope in that it incorporated a projector, which allowed a large audience […]

3. On March 19, 1895, 119 years ago, August and Louis Lumière made the inaugural recording with their newly patented Cinematograph, a sixteen-pound camera made to compete with Edison’s nascent kinetoscope

4. They patented the Cinematograph as a way of allowing lots of aa (it Fc th Tcw people to watch the same thing at the same time - Edison's peephole Kinetoscope could only be used by one person