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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi, I'm Eves, and Welcome to This Day

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Speaker 1: in History Class, a show that uncovers history one day

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Speaker 1: at a time. Today is May nine. The day was

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Speaker 1: May nine. The first public demonstration of the kinetoscope was

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Speaker 1: held at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The

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Speaker 1: kinetoscope was an early motion picture device in which people

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Speaker 1: viewed images through a people at the top. By the

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Speaker 1: end of the nineteenth century, the concept of movie images

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Speaker 1: had permeated the tech world. The zoo practice scope, invented

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Speaker 1: by photographer Edward Muybridge, showed a sequence of still photographs

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Speaker 1: in successive phases of movement. Multiple cameras were used to

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Speaker 1: record these images. Inspired by the development of motion picture

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Speaker 1: devices and a visit to moy Bridges lab, inventor Thomas

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Speaker 1: Edison decided to design a device of his own that

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Speaker 1: could record successive images in a single camera and reproduce

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Speaker 1: objects in motion. In eighteen ninety, Thomas Edison commissioned William

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Speaker 1: Dixon to build the first modern motion picture camera. The

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Speaker 1: camera was called the Kinetograph. The kinetograph was a motion

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Speaker 1: picture camera that used celluloid film that was fed through

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Speaker 1: the camera with a system of sprockets. The next year,

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Speaker 1: Edison and Dickson developed the Kinetoscope, a single viewer peep

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Speaker 1: show device where film was moved past a light. A

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Speaker 1: prototype of the device was shown to a convention of

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Speaker 1: the National Federation of Women's Clubs in May of eighteen

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Speaker 1: ninety one. The Kinetoscope was completed by eighteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: and in eighteen nine three Edison completed construction of the

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Speaker 1: first motion picture production studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: The single room production center was nicknamed the Black Maria,

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Speaker 1: and it cost a little more than six dollars to construct,

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Speaker 1: which would be about sixteen thousand bucks today. The Kinetoscope

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Speaker 1: was supposed to premiere at the Chicago World's Fair in

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Speaker 1: eighteen nine three, but it did not have his big

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Speaker 1: opening on May one at the exposition as planned because

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Speaker 1: of production delays and a nervous breakdown Dixon Head. Historians

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Speaker 1: debate whether a kinetoscope was actually on display at the

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Speaker 1: fair at all, but on May ninth, viewers lined up

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Speaker 1: after a lecture at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and

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Speaker 1: Sciences to see two films on the Kinetoscope. One was

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Speaker 1: called Blacksmithing Scene, a film that Edison created in his

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Speaker 1: New Jersey studio in late April of eight It was

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Speaker 1: the first film of more than a few feet to

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Speaker 1: be publicly exhibited, and it included the first instance of

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Speaker 1: screen acting, since the film's subjects were not actually blacksmiths.

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Speaker 1: Blacksmithing Scene is also one of the earliest survived and

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Speaker 1: complete motion pictures on film. The other film that was shown,

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Speaker 1: one about horse shoeing, is now lost. An article in

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Speaker 1: the July issue of the Alton Telegraph out of Illinois

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Speaker 1: set the following about blacksmithing scene. The scene represented three

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Speaker 1: men in a forge hammering a piece of red hot iron.

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Speaker 1: The picture was so perfect in action, perspective, and proportion

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Speaker 1: that it was exactly the same as if the scene

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Speaker 1: was witnessed through a camera obscura. Every action of the

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Speaker 1: men was shown. One suddenly threw down his hammer and

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Speaker 1: motioned toward a bottle of lager beer on the ground.

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Speaker 1: This was handed to him by one of the other men.

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Speaker 1: He lifted it to his mouth and took a long drink,

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Speaker 1: and after handing it to the second man, spat on

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Speaker 1: his hands and grabbed his hammer, beginning to pound the

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Speaker 1: iron on the anvil with renewed strength. The smoke from

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Speaker 1: the forge rose steadily into the air and curves and circles,

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Speaker 1: and the sparks from the anvil flew in all directions.

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Speaker 1: In Ennoscope parlors opened around the world, and by Edison

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Speaker 1: had introduced the Kineta phone, which combined the kinetoscope with

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Speaker 1: the phonograph to have found accompany the motion picture. But

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Speaker 1: soon the popularity of the kinetoscope faded as projectors were

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Speaker 1: developed for motion pictures. The Lumire Brothers created the Cinematograph,

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Speaker 1: a motion picture film camera that was also a film

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Speaker 1: projector and printer. It had his first demonstration and I'm

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Speaker 1: Eve Stephcote and hopefully you know a little more about

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