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alt=Complete 30 second Mutoscope reel of Sherlock Holmes Baffled. Sherlock Holmes enters a parlour to find it being burgled. When confronted, the villain disappears. Holmes attempts to ignore the event by lighting a cigar, but upon the thief's reappearance tries to reclaim the sack of stolen goods, using a pistol stored in his dressing gown pocket. After Holmes collects his property, the bag vanishes from his hand into the grasp of the thief, who promptly disappears through a window. At this point the film |

Flip book

In 1894, Herman Casler invented a mechanized form of flip book called the Mutoscope, which mounted the pages on a central rotating cylinder rather than binding them in a book.

Koopman

Elias Bernard Koopman (1860–1929), founder of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

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