Mutoscopes were early motion-picture machines. They did not project images onto a screen. Rather, the viewer looked into the machine through a lens and drove the film reel by turning a hand-crank on the front or side of the mutoscope. In the early 1900s there were coin-operated mutoscope parlours in New Zealand. In 2012 this fully operational 19th-century mutoscope was in the Time Cinema in Wellington.
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