Vintage and Antique Camera Projectors
Woodville Latham who, with his sons, created the Eidoloscope projector which was presented publicly in April 1895. During the same period, C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat developed a motion picture projection device which they called the Phantoscope. It was publicly demonstrated in Atlanta in September 1895 at the Cotton States Exposition.The Edison Manufacturing Company agreed to manufacture the Phantoscope and to produce films for it, but on the condition it be advertised as a new Edison invention named the Vitascope. The Edison Company developed its own projector known as the Projectoscope or Projecting Kinetoscope in November 1896, and abandoned marketing the Vitascope.
Heinrich Ernemann began to produce small cine cameras for amateurs in 1903. The first cinema projector didn't work really well, but that failure resulted in the construction of the steel projector "Imperator" in 1909.
