📽️ Before Netflix, before YouTube, even before cinema as we know it, there was the Mutoscope. Invented in 1894 by Herman Casler, this coin-operated machine brought moving pictures to life one flip card at a time. Instead of a screen, it used a rotating drum of photographs that flipped rapidly when you cranked it — basically a giant mechanical flipbook. By the early 1900s, mutoscopes were everywhere, from amusement parks to street corners, showing everything from comedy to boxing matches. In man
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NON FUNNY 😁 on Instagram: "- The post features a 1930s Mutoscope in operation, a hand-cranked device that flips photographic cards to create motion illusions, as shown in the 9-second video of a user inserting a coin and viewing a dance scene through the eyepiece. - Invented in 1894 by Herman Casler and W.K.L. Dickson as a rival to Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, it used larger, more durable card reels over fragile film strips, becoming a staple in penny arcades until the 1910s. - With over 12,000
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