Edison (kinetoscope)- Edison is responsible for inventing the kinetoscope, and it was formally introduced to the public on May 9^th 1893 at the Brooklyn institute of art and sciences. Although the invention may seem extremely primitive now, it was an important part of the development of cinema. One of the cons to the Kinetoscope was that it one allowed one person to view it at a time, very different to the cinema many of us take for granted today. Many experimental films were produced exclusively for the Kinetoscope, and these included the “Monkeyshines” films(1890), which were made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope, as well as the “Butterfly Dance” (1894). Although the Kinetoscope was a huge development in the history of cinema, it did have many flaws to it. This included the fact that it could only be viewed by one person at a time, as well as being extremely hard to transport from place to place, but it still played an extremely important role in the birth of cinema and how we see it today.