21. Despite initial ignorance to the Kinetoscope , the Edison Manufacturing Company responded to this innovation with legal action. 22. Many of the projection systems developed by Edison's firm in later years would use the Kinetoscope name. 23. Patrons paid 25 cents as the admission charge to view films in five kinetoscope machines placed in two rows. 24. After competitors began exhibiting films on screens, Edison introduced its own, Projecting Kinetoscope , in late 1896. 25. The bellydancer stereotype first occurred on film in 1897 when Thomas Edison's kinetoscope showed the women dancing. 26. The Lumieres perfected on the Eidoloscope, invented by the Latham Brothers, and on Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope . 27. The Kinetoscope used George Eastman's celluloid film on 35 mm stock _ just like today's projectors. 28. Edison also made a business of selling Kinetograph and Kinetoscope equipment, which laid the foundation for widespread film production. 29. The Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video. 30. Film projection, which Edison initially disdained as financially nonviable, soon superseded the Kinetoscope 's individual exhibition model.
