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Herman Casler (March 12, 1867 – July 20, 1939) was an American inventor and co-founder of the partnership called the K.M.C.D. Syndicate, along with W.K-L. Dickson, Elias Koopman, and Henry N "Harry" Marvin, which eventually was incorporated into the American Mutoscope Company in December 1895.
An 1899 trade advertisement Mutoscope at Herne Bay Museum Mutoscope in San Francisco antique arcade Mutoscope: "Mechanical Maniacs" video.. The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler [1] and granted U.S. patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. [2]
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916.It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films.
Wm. Dickson & Herman Casler: 1895 Sparring Contest at Canastota: 68 mm 1.35 2.625" × 1.938" 1 perf, 2 sides (punched in-camera) spherical 68 mm spherical Joly-Normandin: Henri Joly: 1895 60 mm 5 perf, 2 sides spherical 60 mm spherical Biographe: Demeny-Gaumont: 1896 60 mm 1.40 1.750" × 1.250" unperforated spherical 60 mm 1.40 spherical ...
December 30 – The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures is founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate of William Kennedy Dickson, Henry Marvin, Herman Casler and Elias Koopman. [4] Casler has manufactured the Biograph 68 mm camera, which becomes the first successful large format 68mm (70mm) film.
These early wide film processes employed a number of different frame sizes and perforations per frame. Films made by American Mutoscope and Biograph (US 1895) a) 62 mm, 1.36:1, 6 perf. - b) 2 7/8 inch, 1.19:1; Films made by Demeny-Gaumont (France 1895) - Chronophotographe, 60 mm, 1.22:1, 4 perf.
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.
Adox was a German camera and film brand of Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH of Frankfurt am Main, the world's first photographic materials manufacturer. In the 1950s it launched its revolutionary thin layer sharp black and white kb 14 and 17 films, referred to by US distributors as the 'German wonder film'. [1]