Editing Electrotachyscope (section)

==Legacy==
By 1886, when Anschütz developed his first Schnellseher and presented it to family and friends, photographic motion pictures recorded in real-time (known as [[cinematography]]) had only been seen from chronophotograph prints in zoetropes or similar devices (and rarely in public). [[Eadweard Muybridge]] had mostly shown moving silhouettes traced from his chronophotographs onto glass discs with his [[zoopraxiscope]] in lectures since 1880; the only projected photographic moving images he ever made featured a [[stop motion]] animation of the skeleton of a horse. The [[Roundhay Garden Scene]], October 1888 by [[Louis Le Prince]], is the oldest known cinematographic film.

Anschütz publicly presented his first Schnellseher in March 1887, presumably as the first device dedicated to the presentation of cinematography. The presentation of his projection Schnellseher on 25 November 1894 was presumably the first public instance of the cinematographic projection.

The [[Kinetoscope]] made by the [[Edison Manufacturing Company]] was most likely much influenced by the coin-operated Schnellseher automat, but mainly intended to show longer scenes. Of the 22 films produced by the company from 20 May 1891 (''Dickson Greeting'') to mid-March 1894 (''Boxing Match''), at least 15 have subjects that are very similar to those found in the works of Anschütz. Although several are logical examples of motion studies, some seem to have been based on (lost) Schnellseher discs. ''[[The Barbershop]]'' (produced late 1893, premiered 14 April 1894) is probably an extended remake of Anschütz' (lost) ''Einseifen beim Barbier'' (1890). ''[[Fred Ott's Sneeze]]'' was probably based on ''Tabakschnupfender Alter''.<ref name=copycats/>

[[Auguste and Louis Lumière]]'s ''Partie d’écarté'' (16 January 1896, the thirteenth Cinématograph production) seems very similar to the one image known from Anschütz' ''Skatspieler''.<ref name=copycats/>