Buyenlarge 0-587-33930-6-G1624 Edison s Kinetoscope Fine Art Giclee Print 16" x 24"

The cinematograph is really a development of the zoetrope or the wheel of life in 1877 Edward Muybridge obtained successive pictures of a running horse by means of a row of cameras, but the first practical moving picture Apparatus was invented by Edison in 1890. In 1892 he brought out the kinetoscope, a combination of photography and electricity by means of which the voice of a photograph works synchronously with the actions of the figures projected on the screen.