Photography

Electrotachyscope

The Elektrische Schnellseher (from German: 'Electrical Quick-Viewer') or Electrotachyscope is an early motion picture system developed by chronophotographer Ottomar Anschütz between 1886 and 1894. He made at least seven different versions of the machine, including a projector, a peep-box viewer and several versions with illuminated glass photographs on a rotating wheel viewed on a 12.5 cm (4.9 in) wide milk glass screen by up to seven people at the same time. The system apparently influenced the development of the Kinetoscope film viewer by Edison's company (publicly introduced in 1894), and most of the subjects of the first Kinetoscope presentations resembled those of the Electrotachyscope.

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• ▸John Thomson (photographer)
• ▸Cleomella serrulata
• ▸David Fincher's unrealized projects

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