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'''The Kinematoscope''' (a.k.a. '''Motoscope''') was patented in 1861 (United States [[Patent]] 31357), a protean development in the [[history of cinema]]. The invention aimed to present the illusion of [[Motion (physics)|motion]].
The patent was filed by [[Coleman Sellers II|Coleman Sellers]] of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] as an "improvement in exhibiting [[stereoscopy|stereoscopic]] pictures". Coleman applied stereoscopy to the existing principle of toy [[phantasmascope]]s using rotating discs.
A series of still stereographic [[chronophotography|images with chronologically successive stages of action]] were mounted on blades of a spinning paddle and viewed through slits. The slits passed under a stereoscopic viewer. The pictures were visible within a cabinet, and were not projected onto a screen.
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'''The Kinematoscope''' (a.k.a. '''Motoscope''') was patented in 1861 (United States [[Patent]] 31357), a protean development in the [[history of cinema]]. The invention aimed to present the illusion of [[Motion (physics)|motion]].
The patent was filed by [[Coleman Sellers II|Coleman Sellers]] of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] as an "improvement in exhibiting [[stereoscopy|stereoscopic]] pictures". Coleman applied stereoscopy to the existing principle of toy [[phantasmascope]]s using rotating discs.
A series of still stereographic [[chronophotography|images with chronologically successive stages of action]] were mounted on blades of a spinning paddle and viewed through slits. The slits passed under a stereoscopic viewer. The pictures were visible within a cabinet, and were not projected onto a screen.
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