Sentences with phrase «of kinetoscope»

I have never witnessed a movie other than once in Charleston, when I dropped a nickel into the slot of a kinetoscope viewer and wound the crank until the bell rang and put the sound tubes like a stethoscope to my ears and then bent to the eyepieces.

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The tale ends with a description of some of his most marvelous inventions — the incandescent lightbulb; the phonograph; the kinetoscope, from which movies were to come — and gives a feel for Edison's genius and persistence.

Evoking the myths and histories of the «Wild West» and taking the form of vignettes that last under a minute (as per Rule Number One), the films draw on American Western folklore, Situationist psychogeography, early film and primitive cinema, such as flipbooks and kinetoscopes.