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Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images via film and electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images.
The Victor Animatograph Corporation was a maker of projection equipment founded in 1910 in Davenport, Iowa by Swedish-born American inventor Alexander F. Victor. The firm introduced its first 16 mm camera and movie projector on August 12, 1923, [1] the same year Eastman Kodak introduced the Cine-Kodak and Kodascope.
Overhead projectors were introduced into U.S. military training during World War II as early as 1940 and were quickly being taken up by tertiary educators, [14] and within the decade they were being used in corporations. [15] After the war they were used at schools like the U.S. Military Academy. [13] The journal Higher Education of April 1952 ...
The Photo History Timeline Collection; In the eye of the camera — Illustrated historical essay about early photography; Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging; The Digital Camera Museum with accurate history section and many rare items Archived 2017-02-16 at the Wayback Machine; The Fascinating Timeline of Photography Technology
A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens , but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers .
The firm made products for the motion picture industry. The Bell & Howell 2709 was the first all metal, commercially available motion picture camera. [ 2 ] The 2709 was so expensive that only Charlie Chaplin and three other people owned one, [ 3 ] while the rest were owned by studios.
Invented in Trenton by John Taylor in 1856, it got another twist in 1870, when farmer and butcher George Washington Case created his pork roll variation, packaged in corn husks.
For the 16 mm projectors that were often used in schools and churches, the projector could be re-configured to rewind films. The size of the reels can vary based on the projectors, but generally films are divided and distributed in reels of up to 2,000 feet (610 metres), about 22 minutes at 24 frames/sec).