Photo-Rotoscope Peep Show (cinematograph, W.C. Hughes, 1899)

Type of hardware

cinematograph

Related organisations

manufacturer: W.C. Hughes

Nation of origin

unknown

Date of first manufacture

1899

Dimensions

length 72 (units unspecified)

(all dimensions are nominal; individual examples may have varied slightly from these values).

Production

unknown

Original retail price

£21 10s. in 1899

Advertised in

The optical magic lantern journal: volume 10 number 124 (September 1899), viii

Reference

‘Advertisements from the Optical Magic Lantern Journal of 1900’ in NMLJ 1.1 (April 1978), p. 2

Notes

A cinematograph projector mounted at one end of a large peep-box, with 20 viewing apertures, for use as an outdoor street entertainment.

Lucerna ID 2000042

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 20 December 2011

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Photo-Rotoscope Peep Show (cinematograph, W.C. Hughes, 1899)