As of November 20, 2002

The listings shown below detail the contents of the book and CD

American Cinematograph, 1897, Eberhard Schneider, Musser p. 253.

Animatographe, 1897, maker unknown, Musser p. 158.

Animatoscope , 1895, made by O. A. Eames and had an unusual double lens projector.

Animatoscope, 1896, made by Lyman H. Howe, spelled Animatiscope in Musser, p.167.

Animatoscope, 1896, made by William Wright, Musser p. 168.

Beadnell, 1897, made by William J. Beadnell and Edwin S. Porter in New York City. Undated Dunston letter.

Biograph , 1896, (70mm) was made by Herman Casler and the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Biographet, a 35mm version of the biograph. (I don’t know if this was made during the period covered in this paper)

Biopticon, 1896, made by Woodville Latham, their third machine, Ray Bryan files.

Bioscope , 1897, Made by Walter Isaacs in collaboration with and for Charles Urban.

Centograph, 1896, maker unknown, was a pirated Vitascope. Musser p.167.

Chronik , 1899, made by Chronik Brothers, Ray Bryan Files.

Cinematograph, 1897, made by Walter Isaacs of New York City.

Cinematograph, 1897, Made by William N. Selig before naming his projectors “Polyscope”.

Cineograph, 1896 , made by Siegmund Lubin, basically a vitascope in collaboration with Jenkins.

1897 model with or without spoolbank attachment.

1898 model with or without spoolbank attachment.

1899 model L

Cinographoscope, 1896, made by Charles H. Webster, for Baker & McGarth (later called Cinagraph) Musser p.167.

Criterioscope, 1 st model , 1897, Made by J. B. Colt Co., Ray Bryan Files.

2 nd model

Depue projector improved model made in 1899, date of first projector not known

Edengraph , 1899 , made by Frank B. Cannock, Ray Bryan Files.

Eidoloscope, 1895, made by Woodville Latham, with the help of Enoch J. Rector and Eugene Lauste, formerly Panopticon.

Electroscope, 1897, maker unknown, Musser p.183.

Eureka , 1897, made by Edmund Kuhn and Charles H. Webster, Ray Bryan Files.

Excellograph , 1898 , made by Elias P. Dunn, New York City, Ray Bryan Files.

Gray , 1895, patent by R. D. Gray, not known if it was actually made, Hopwood pp. 88-91, Ray Bryan Files.

Imatoscope, 1897, Bonheur bros., may have been a projector (Musser, Emergence… P. 169).

Historiographe, 1899, maker unknown, Musser p. 272.

Kalatechnoscope, 1897, made by William Paley, similar to a Vitascope but with numerous improvements.

Kinematograph, 1899, made By Joseph Menchen, New York City, Ray Bryan Files.

Kinematograph, 1900 , made by W. Britain Jr. This is a continuous projector. Patent No. 648,019. Ray Bryan files.

Kineoptikon, 1899, made by Joseph Menchen, (Menchen Electrical Co.) of New York City, Dunston letter Nov. 29, 1951.

Kinetoscoptican , 1896, made by Charles H. Oxenham, (not sure if American) Ray Bryan Files.

Kinetoscope , 1896, type one, made by Thomas Alva Edison, type one, originally a spoolbank.

Kinetoscope type two.

Kinodrome , I don’t know if a pre-1900 model was made or not. Dunston in a Nov. 29, 1951 letter indicates 1898.

Leroy , made by Jean A. LeRoy, made unsubstantiated claims of having made a projector as early as 1894.

Magniscope , 1894, made by Edward Hill Amet, in Waukegan Illinois.

Optigraph No. 1 , 1898, made by Alvah C. Roebuck of Sears and Roebuck fame.

Optigraph No. 2 , 1899.

Optigraph No. 3 , 1900.

Panopticon, 1895, made by Woodville Latham, originally had no intermittent and was renamed Eidoloscope.

Panaromograph, 1896, made by J. Whitney Beals, Jr. of Boston 1896, Musser p. 167.

Phantoscope , 1894, made by Charles Francis Jenkins 1894, early model with no intermittent.

Phantoscope, 1895, an improved model with an intermittent exhibited at the cotton states show in Atlanta, Georgia.

Phantoscope 1896, with intermittent sold by Jenkins and the Columbia Phonograph co., basically a Vitascope.

Polyscope 1897 model , made by William N. Selig, modeled after the Lumiere

Cinematograph.

Polyscope1898 model

Polyscope1900 model

Powers Peerless, made by Nicholas Power.

Powers No. 1

Powers No. 2

Projectograph, 1896, made by Charles H. Webster (International Film Co.), Musser p. 167

Projectoscope 1896, made by Charles H. Webster and Edward Kuhn (International Film Co.) Ray Bryan Files.

Sportagraph, 1899, maker unknown, Musser p. 203.

Stereoptigraph, 1897, William B. Moore, Musser p. 258.

 

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