why were thomas edison's early films for the kinetoscope rather limited? course hero hum 112

by Linda Howe 10 min read

Most of those early kinetoscope films disintegrated or burned because of the film's nitrate (acidic) base. But luckily, he had made paper copies of the film's individual frames, called "contact prints." So now you can view one of Edison's first-ever moving pictures, commonly called "Fred Ott's Sneeze."

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