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The first motion picture camera, the Kinetoscope, was developed by Thomas Edison and his team in 1891.
Source: Library of Congress
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Edison's Kinetoscope: The Invention That Created the Film Industry
The Kinetoscope of 1891 was not a projector — it was a peephole machine for one viewer at a time. Thomas Edison thought that was perfectly fine, and his failure to see the commercial potential of projected film almost cost him his place in cinema history.
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