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      Experiments in the late 1880s led to the development of the Kinetograph, which captured images con-tinuously, using a new             material  called celluloid or film - a flexible material in continuous lengths that accepted photosensitive chemicals.
      Drawings of unlimited subjects are printed as pictures by means of lithographic procedures on the film.
      The processed film was then displayed in a machine called a Kinetoscope, A lantern able for projection a film as well as a slide.
      The illusion of a moving picture is produced by a set number of images played over and over in a loop.
      In order for the loop to appear seamless the last image should resolve into or introduce the first image
      Transportation was done through 4 holes next at a frame (picture) , called Edison perforation, and 35 mm wide,
      which still exist today.

                      

      Left:  Three frames of a film

      Middle:  Manufactures name printed on the side of the film    Georg Carette, Nürnberg     

      Right:  A carton box containing a film                                        

                      

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