A poster showing an audience and "Edison's greatest marvel, The Vitascope." Metropolitan Print Company, c. 1896. Vitascope was an early film projector patented in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. It was adopted by Thomas Edison to project his Kinetoscope films in the first Nickelodeon theater.

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