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  1. Mutoscope - Wikipedia

    The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler [1] and granted U.S. patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. [2] . Like Thomas Edison …

  2. The American Society of Cinematographers | ASC Museum: Mutoscope

    The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by W.K.L. Dickson and Herman Casler and later patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. Like Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, it did …

  3. Happy 125th Birthday to the Mutoscope! | Now See Hear!

    On November 21, 1894, 125 years ago today, inventor Herman Casler submitted a patent for the Mutoscope, an early motion picture device. The Mutoscope was a single-person ‘peep show’ type of …

  4. Mutoscopes & Reels - Gameroom Show

    A mutoscope is an early motion picture, coin-operated device. It does not project on a screen, but provides viewing to only one person at a time. Circa 1900, the mutoscope dominated the coin-in-the …

  5. Photographic History Collection: Early Cinema: Mutoscopes

    Mutoscope viewers were found in many amusement areas and arcades until at least the 1960s. Their inexpensiveness and short, often comical or sensational subjects allowed the machines a far longer …

  6. Mutoscope - World Wide Words

    Jul 8, 2006 · Buried in that list was one that was certainly real, mutoscope, a device created by the American inventor Herman Casler and patented in 1894. The word is assumed to be from Latin …

  7. Mutoscope, 1900-1905 - The Henry Ford

    The mutoscope was developed in 1895 to rival Thomas Edison's kinetoscope. Mutoscope motion pictures were a single-viewer experience; viewers would hand-crank the machine at their preferred …

  8. Mutoscopes — Douglass Crockwell

    A Mutoscope is a type of early motion picture device that was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a type of flip book that used a series of photographs mounted on a rotating drum to …

  9. A bit of History - Mini Mutoscope

    The Mutoscope was patented well over 100 years ago as an early motion picture device that mounted sequential photographs around a circular drum. These photographs were cranked using a …

  10. What's a Mutoscope - Sanmartians.net

    A Mutoscope was essentially a large, mechanically driven flip book. Hundreds of individual photos were placed on a drum which the user rotated with the aid of a hand crank while he or she viewed the …