Blog #1

In my opinion, the vitascope was one of the most revolutionary technologies ever created. According to the class notes and discussion, it allowed film to be projected on a screen so that multiple people could view a film at once. Before the vitascope, movie goers used several coin fed kinetoscopes to view films through a peephole in the machine. According to the book, when the vitascope was introduced to the public in 1896 by Thomas Edison, larger audiences could then view larger films simultaneously. As a result of the vitascope being able to show longer movies, more creativity was allowed by film producers. The creation of the vitascope began the moviegoer culture that we know today.