Industrial Light And Magic

On This Day In History
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope

Quote Of The Day
"I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion, and in such a form as to be both cheap, practical and convenient .... This apparatus I call a Kinetoscope 'Moving View.'"
(Thomas Edison)

Thankfully Thomas Edison's apparatus was a good deal more exciting than his promotional pitch implied; a good job he didn't go into advertising.

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