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[Motion picture device] – Historic Print

[Motion picture device], c1896. — historic photograph
[Motion picture device], c1896.. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Motion picture device]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This print is a copyright deposit, a photograph submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office in support of a claim by Donaldson Brothers, and its generic title means the record does not name the specific machine shown. It dates to about 1896, a pivotal year for American film, when projection devices such as Edison's Vitascope and the Lumière Cinématographe were drawing public crowds to vaudeville houses and storefront theaters. Copyright deposits like this one preserve a visual record of the equipment of that moment, when inventors and manufacturers were racing to protect their designs.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes26454 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Donaldson Brothers.
SubjectsMotion picture devices--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 996 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169337

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