Departing the Vitascope operation after little more than a year, Edison commissioned the development of his own projection systems, the Projectoscope and then multiple iterations of the Projecting Kinetoscope.
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The Edison Manufacturing Company agreed to manufacture the machine and to produce films for it, but on the condition it be advertised as a new Edison invention named the Vitascope.
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The premiere of the Vitascope was a quick response to threat of losing a very large amount of money to the Lumiere Cinematographe which vaudeville managers were about to invest in.
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RKO Radio Pictures released " Danger Lights " with Jean Arthur, Louis Wolheim, and Kismet " ( both 1930 ) in a widescreen process they called Vitascope.
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In 2007 it was responsible for the discovery of the Vitascope Theater, part of Edisonia Hall, the first purpose-built movie theater in the world which opened in 1896.
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Robertson goes on to list several other wide-screen formats introduced around 1930 & mdash; Vitascope, Magnafilm, Spoor Berrgren & mdash; but does not name any specific movies.
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In 1896, they acquired an Edison Vitascope, and in 1897 Blackton and Smith began producing silent films under the names'Edison Vitagraph', then the'Commercial Advertising Bureau '.
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"' Thomas J . Armat "'( October 25, 1866 September 30, 1948 ) was an cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope.
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In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.
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The Vitascope, along with many of the competing projectors, became a popular attraction in variety and vaudeville theaters in cities across the US . Motion pictures soon became starring attractions on the vaudeville bill.
