Eidoloscope 1895 - early film technology


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The Eidoloscope, also known as the Eidoloscope-Panoptikon, was one of the earliest film projectors created by French wine grower Ezhen Lust and English vintner William Dixon in 1894-1895. The device was introduced to the press on April 21, 1895 and to the public on May 20th of the same year in a store located on Lower Broadway in New York. The Eidoloscope was designed by Lust and Dixon who, along with Woodville Lethem, a professor of chemistry, formed the Lambda Company to develop the projector.


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One of the key features of the Eidoloscope was its ability to project films to a larger audience than its competitor, the Kinetoscope, as it only required one projector instead of six. The projector was designed to project images onto a wall or screen continuously, which allowed more people to watch the film at once. The device also had a special mechanism, known as Lethem's Loop, that reduced the pressure on the film and allowed for higher quality projections. The Eidoloscope was the first wide-screen format, with a width of 51mm.


The Lambda Company created 15 films for the Eidoloscope, including bullfighting films and a stage adaptation of Prosper Merimee's "Carmen" with Rosabel Morrison in the lead role. The first film produced by the company was a boxing match between "Young Griffo" and "Battling" Charles Barnett that took place on May 4, 1895 in Madison Square Garden in New York. The film was recorded continuously over four rounds with a break of one minute between rounds.

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At the time, early devices could only record a maximum of 40 meters of film, but thanks to the efforts of Lust and Dixon and the Lethem Loop, the Eidoloscope was able to project longer films with improved quality. The mechanism worked by reversing the film once it reached the end, creating a continuous projection without interruption.

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