The Kinora
Marketed by Bond’s Ltd.
138 New Bond Street
London, England
ca. 1910

While the Kinora is almost forgotten nowadays, it used to be a relatively popular technology for home entertainment in the early 20th century. The Kinora system was originally invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1896, a year after they released the Cinématographe.

Instead of projecting moving images on a screen, like the Cinématographe, the Kinora was designed as an individual viewing machine similar to the Mutoscope.  It made use of a flipbook mechanism to animate hundreds of paper-based photographs that were attached to a reel. By placing the reel on the Kinora viewer and turning the crank, the photographs were put in motion and could be watched while looking through the lens.  Courtesy of Stuartfabecameras.com