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vitascope

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vitascope [ˈvaɪtəˌskəʊp]
n
(Performing Arts) an early type of film projector
[from Latin vīta life + -scope]

vitascope
an early form of motion-picture projector.
See also: Films


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The second is New York, where in April 1896 Thomas Edison's Vitascope was launched with a dozen short films accompanying live acts in a vaudeville theatre.
In Popcorn with Maple Syrup, we meet up with some smooth operators like "10 per cent Ernie" Shipman and his wife Nell (whose eye-popping nudity in 1919's Back to God's Country ensured the picture's success), not to mention pioneering entrepreneurs and inventors such as George and Andrew Holland, who convinced a skeptical Thomas Edison that his Vitascope projection system had a future.
In the 1890s, licensing for the Kinetoscope and Vitascope had resulted in the United States being carved up into 32 exhibition territories, and this system of sub-distribution lasted well into the '80s.
 
 
 
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