The Kinetoscope

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8366, 29 February 1896, Page 3

The Kinetoscope

! For a short period Thames people have an opportunity of seehig Edison's most wonderful invention the Kineto scope, Mr A. H. Whitehouse exhibiting the instrument in premises in Pollen street.' The achievement, of the kinetoscope is the reproduction of living movements, and so realistically does it do its work, and so vividly is every detail in connection therewith brought out that to witness any scenes through its agency is almost as good as having them before ono first hand. The possibilities of the instrument are great, and it may not be many years before it is used in conjuntion with the phonograph to such an extent as will enable us at the antipodes to obtain an adequate idea of all the great happenings in the Old World— to actually see and hear whit has taken place. This is truly a wonderful age, and perhaps no man has helped to make it so more than Thomas /Viva Edison.

Mr White-house has four scones toput before his patrons, the best of which is la theatrical reproduction as to give an adequate conception of it tho phonograph has been brought into requisition, and ono not only sees every evolution in which thirty-four actors are engaged faithfully and woll, but hears the music which accompanies their actions. A fire rescunis also a wonderful representation; first a burning building, with volumes of smoke rolling up, is seen, then tho firemen with ladders in position, the hose playing upon the flames, and the rescue of occupants from the flames. Other pictures are a ladies' skirt danco and a burlesque scene in connection with a Chinese laundry and its occupiers. There were numerous visitors yesterday to the exhibition, and no doubt during Mr Whitehouse's stay a very large portion of the population will make a call so as to be able to say they have seen the kinetoscope,