MUTOSCOPE Peep-Show

The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. http://www.flipbook.info/viewers.php
It worked on the same principle as the "flip book." The individual image frames were conventional black-and-white, silver-based photographic prints on tough, flexible opaque cards. Rather than being bound into a booklet, the cards were attached to a circular core, rather like a huge Rolodex. A reel typically held about 850 cards, giving a viewing time of about a minute. The reel with cards attached had a total diameter of about ten inches (25 cm); the individual cards had dimensions of about 2-3/4" x 1-7/8" (7 cm x 4.75 cm).

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[fromthesidelines]

The "golden age" of the Mutoscope was from 1895, whern the International Mutoscope Corp. was formed (manufacturing this "flicker machine", as well as other "penny arcade" and "novelty" devices), through 1949, when they officially discontinued them.

[schritzy]

@fromthesidelines Thank you for this very informative comment.

[fromthesidelines]

You're welcome, 'schirtzy'.

[Carthsting]

@bretttiktin cool man,but i got about thousand mutoscopes in my basements,i checked they all working is so funny

[bretttiktin]

i have a mutoscope two that works and ti is from 1940 i have a frend that that have 50 working mutoscope in a warehouse