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Mutoscope

This invention relates to what I choose to call “mutoscopes” or devices for showing the changing positions of a body or bodies in action.
My object is to produce a device for exhibiting pictures, photographs, or similar likenesses so arranged that by successively bringing them into the line of vision they will show the changing positions of the body or bodies and reproduce to the eye the acts of the performers; and to that end my invention consists, first, in arranging the pictures, which have been specially taken very rapidly so as to catch each new and changing position of the body, in succession; second, in providing means for successively and rapidly exposing them to the line of vision, and in the several other new and novel features and combination of parts hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the claims here unto annexed.

Brevet nº 549,309. 5 novembre 1895.