Cinetograph

Kinetograph with horizontal film, around 1891

Dickson at the cinetograph during a recording using the playback method with the phonograph

The cinetograph ( old Greek kinein , to move 'and graphein , to write, to draw') was one of the first film cameras .

Historical classification

The kinetograph was designed by William KL Dickson (chief engineer at Edison) in 1890-91 , built by Johann Heinrich Krüsi (mechanic at Edison) and patented in the USA in 1894 .

In this camera, 1⅜ inch wide celluloid films were fed intermittently past a lens with a ratchet mechanism at up to 46 frames per second and exposed in the process. The exposed film strip was developed photo-chemically. The kinetoscope served as the playback device .

There were at least two copies of the cinetograph. Since around 2005 there has been a replica of the first model and that of the Black Maria .

Historically, the term was also used generally for film cameras and film projectors .

literature

William Kennedy Laurie and Antonia Dickson: The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1894

See also

Wiktionary: Kinematograph  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Chronophotography
• Cinematographs
• Kinetoscope

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edison's Kinetograph In: Industrieblätter 1890 No. 36, pp. 284–285

Web links

• Media history: photography, film and television ( Memento from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (Friedberg location)
• The Impossible Cameras: Edison weebly.com (English)