Good News in History, August 24 125 years ago, Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera developed by his employee, Scottish inventor William Kennedy Dickson. Called the Kinetographic Camera, it used an electric motor to shoot with sprocketed film, which allowed the strip to stop long enough so each frame could be fully exposed and then advance quickly (in about 1/460 of a second)—the first practical system for the high-speed stop-and-go film movement that would be the foundation for the next century of cinematography. (1891)
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