was a
totally different machine from the one people associate with
the motion picture camera. Housed large rectangular box,
it was intended stay the Works and produce the media for
the new form entertainment introduced the kinetoscope. (Illus 6-4 strip
kinetograph, #6571) The film was held steady teeth which
engaged the perforations while the exposure was made and then
moved forward escapement mechanism for the next exposure.
The camera was conceived Edison the manufacturing
part the system which produced the film product.
The strip kinetograph used two electric motors, one to
drive the shutter and the other advance the strip means
of perforations each side the strip.VI-38
had the highest priority, however, and there was no
patent application until 1891, when Edison filed description
of two machines: the kinetoscope for viewing pictures and the
kinetograph for taking them. The rate exposure could taken as
high forty per second and the strips were feet
long. The shutter and
motor mechanism were assembled one unit and positioned
directly behind the single lens. The box was attached cast
iron base (no doubt dampen the vibration), and connected to
. It
was designed around the electric motor which powered the
shutter and moved the film rapidly past it.
The image had held steady for fraction second or
the persistence vision would not occur— all the viewer would
see was blurred image
