Kinora

OBJECT TYPE: Viewer
MANUFACTURER: Gaumont & Cie.
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
OBJECT NAME VARIATION:
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1897
IMAGE SIZE: 3.8cm X 6.0cm
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: kinora

NOTES:
  Polished mahogany box shaped body with viewing lens on top; Mechanism
  similar to mutoscope, but much smaller in size. Knob on front of view
  viewer is turned which causes paper reel to rotate; successive images
  create illusion of motion. Illumination from opening polished nickel
  door on side of viewer.
  Dimensions: 26.0cmH X 13.3cmW X 20.3cmL.

MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: paper

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: G271.00006

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --The History of Movie Photography.-- Eastview Editions, 1981. pp 80-81.//