Kinematoscope

The Kinematoscope was patented in 1861, a protean development in the history of cinema. The invention aimed to present the illusion of motion.
The patent was filed by Coleman [Sellers II|Coleman Sellers] of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an "improvement in exhibiting stereoscopic pictures". Coleman applied stereoscopy to the existing principle of toy phantasmascopes using rotating discs.
A series of still stereographic images with successive stages of action were mounted on blades of a spinning paddle and viewed through slits. The slits passed under a stereoscopic viewer. The pictures were visible within a cabinet, and were not projected onto a screen.