Difference between revisions of "Mutoscope"
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[[Image:Mutoscope in Steel.jpg|thumb|right|A later version of the mutoscope was encased in steel so that it could not be carried away, c. 1900 (Keim 11).]] | [[Image:Mutoscope in Steel.jpg|thumb|right|A later version of the mutoscope was encased in steel so that it could not be carried away, c. 1900 (Keim 11).]] | ||
==Compared to the Kinetoscope: Moving pictures vs Moving Images== | ==Compared to the Kinetoscope: Moving pictures vs Moving Images== | ||
+ | [[Image:The Biograph Mutoscope.jpg|thumb|right|The Mutoscope <br> | ||
+ | 1. Internal view, without the image cylinder 2. Internal view with the cylinder in place 3. Details of the mechanism seen from the front 4. Details of the mechanism seen from behind <br> | ||
+ | The Biograph Mutoscope (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) (Kardish 21) .]] | ||
==Spectatorship== | ==Spectatorship== | ||
===Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together=== | ===Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together=== |
Revision as of 18:50, 28 March 2010
Contents
Technology
Compared to the Kinetoscope: Moving pictures vs Moving Images
Spectatorship
Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together
Scopic Pleasure: Erotic Viewing
References
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Brown, Richard. A Victorian Film Enterprise : The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897-1915.Print.
Casler, Herman. Mutoscope. Patent 683,910. 8 Oct 1901. Web. 27 Mar 2010.
Dixon, Wheeler W. and Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. A Short History of Film. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Print.
Gunning, Tom. "Machines That Give Birth to Images: Douglas Crockwell." Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Print.
Herbert, Stephen. A History of Early Film Volume 1. New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.
The Illustrated History of the Cinema. Ed. Lloyd, Ann and Robinson, David. Orbis Book Publishing Corporation Ltd. and Macmillan Publishing Company., 1986. Print.
Keim, Norman O. with Marc, David. Our Movie Houses: A History of Film & Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Print.