Edison was born in 1847. The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. Though not a movie project it creates the illusion of movement by showing a strip of film bearing different images over any type of light with a high-speed shutter so that an image is shown.
Ever since the kinetoscope was brought to public attention and proved to be so popular, inventors have been striving to perfect apparatus for success-fully projecting these miniature images upon the screen, producing the same effect of motion as in the kinetoscope. In the kinetoscope the successive images illuminated by reflected light are seen through a lens, making them bigger from an image half an inch to about four inches.
Here is a video of Edison's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p94yQ8cvTHg
This video shows a woman dancing as her dress changes colours very quickly as she moves about.
This image shows Edison working on his Kinetoscope to try and improve it.
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