Gramophone Cinema / Kinephone / zoetrope early animation (HD)

Gramophone Cinema (The Kinephone) is an optical toy made in England circa 1925. This is basically a variant design of a Zoetrope and is designed to be placed on a turntable and turns your crank phonograph into a cartoon cinema. There are five animated discs, including Charlie Chaplin and Felix the Cat, along with the slotted viewing drum all in the original box.

[@sideshowtink]

That is outstanding. I have to find one. THANK YOU for sharing this!

[@tough213]

wow that is really fun to watch and they really made a great deal of novelty items for turntables back then thank you for posting this

[@chompo7]

very cool!

[@SymphonicOasis]

NEAT!!!!

[@geraldmarkowitz]

All were cool but I liked the most the switching heads.

[@lindyhoppers]

That's Kool!

[@ismailparlak1273]

Süper 👍

[@Jeffrey314159]

I like it but it isn't too interesting! If this device could incorporate music while the imagery played it would be a lot more fun!