This clip shows the Zoopraxiscope .
His photography encouraged many people all over the world , including the Lumière brothers ( the inventors of the first movie projector in 1894 and in particular Thomas Edison who was inspired to create the first projector , turning the use of high speed shutters in cameras into movie making technology .
was born in Ohio in 1847 and is renowned for countless inventions and most importantly turning an idea into a commercial success . Whilst he didn ’ t invent the lightbulb he did produce the first commercially viable one . He first started incandescent research on it in 1878 and by 1879 Edison had successfully tested a filament that burned for 13.5 hours , and thus in November 1879 he filed for a U . S patent for electric lamp .
Using his research into light he started to focus on the projection of light and its uses . The Kinetoscope is one of the first motion picture devices but was never designed to project movies outwards . It was created for films to be looked at separately through a window of a cabinet inclosing its components . The Kinetoscope set the standards for all the cinematic projection before film was invented . It was a very basic device and watching pictures through this invention gives the viewer the illusion of movement . It does this by passing images captured on a strip of film over a light source with high speed shutter speed .
The only bad things about this invention were that only one person could view the Kinetoscope at one time and that the illusion only lasted 5-10 seconds . As the box was 4-foot-long and there was only a small hole in the top for when people wanted to view the pictures – the lighting wasn ’ t that good to look at .