Mutoscope

The Mutoscope was an apparatus for showing moving images on the principle of the stroboscope.

When Mutoscope a larger number of photographic series images are mounted on stiff cardboard sheets radially on a shaft. Upon rotation of the shaft, the blades are stopped by a stop of the housing short succession and show up with it for a fraction of a second the audience through the show opening.

The overall impression of this rapid succession and resting for a short time images - as well as the Kinetoscope - that of a single moving film.

History

A first patent for a stereo animation Blätterer 1861 Coleman Sellers granted. 1894 was requested by Herman Casler a Mutoskoppatent. It was the first of a series for the production of various Mutoskope the American Mutoscope Company, which thus expanded worldwide. There was Mutoskope for home use or for use by sales representatives. More common, however, were the floor models, which invited public places to view a short animation. In France, Léon Gaumont produced as a licensee, a large number of these devices for the European market. 1909 Mutoskopproduktion was set by the American Mutoscope Co. and only resumed in the 1920s by William Rabkin.