The next pioneer of animation I will mention is the famous
inventor, Thomas Edison and his invention, the kinetoscope. The kinetoscope was
able to project a moving image, however it had one flaw, it could only be used
by one person. The way the kinetoscope works is by the viewer using a hole in
the top of the device to view the video, as opposed to actually projecting the
image outside of the device. Although this was a huge step up from Horner’s
device the zoetrope, only a few years after the kinetoscope’s creation in 1892 it
would be upstaged by actual film projectors, which allowed for more than one
person at a time to view a film.
Despite only being popular for a few years, the kinetoscope
was still very influential, so I would consider Edison a pioneer of animation, as
his device and its flaws are what led to the creation of the first actual film
projector.
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