Editing Mutoscope (section)

{{Short description|Hand-cranked motion-picture viewer (1895–1949)}}
{{about|an early motion-picture device|non-motion-picture "mutoscope cards," typically of "pin-up" material|Mutoscope cards}}
[[File:Mutoscope, 1899 (bis).jpg|thumb|An 1899 trade advertisement]]
[[File:What the butler saw machine 033.jpg|thumb|Mutoscope at [[Herne Bay Museum and Gallery|Herne Bay Museum]]]]
[[File:Mutoscope San Francisco 2013-04-13 12-21.jpg|thumb|Mutoscope in San Francisco antique arcade]]
[[File:Mutoscope Mechanical Maniacs.webm|thumb|thumbtime=1.4|Mutoscope: "Mechanical Maniacs" video.]]
The '''Mutoscope''' is an early [[film|motion picture]] device, invented by [[William Kennedy Dickson|W. K. L. Dickson]] and [[Herman Casler]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=David |date=1996 |title=From Peep Show to Palace: the Birth of American Film |url=https://archive.org/details/frompeepshowtopa0000robi |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/frompeepshowtopa0000robi/page/56 56] |isbn=0-231-10338-7 }}</ref> and granted {{US Patent|549309A}} to [[Herman Casler]] on November 5, 1895.<ref>Spehr, Paul C. (2000). "Unaltered to Date: Developing 35mm Film," in ''Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam'', ed. John Fullerton and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, pp. 3–28 (p. 17). Sydney: John Libbey & Co.</ref> Like [[Thomas Edison]]'s [[Kinetoscope]], it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only [[Peep show|one person at a time]]. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system, marketed by the American Mutoscope Company (later the [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company]]), quickly dominated the coin-in-the-slot [[peep show|peep-show]] business.