Audiovisual introductions in 1894

film with no synchronized recorded dialogue

analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove

thumb|An 1899 trade advertisement thumb|Mutoscope at Herne Bay Museum and Gallery|Herne Bay Museum thumb|Mutoscope in San Francisco antique arcade thumb|thumbtime=1.4|Mutoscope: "Mechanical Maniacs" video. The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler and granted to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, it does not project on a screen and provides viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system, marketed by the American Mutoscope Company (later the American Mutoscope and

right|thumb|Image of the Phantoscope from Scientific American 1896 The Phantoscope was a film projection machine, a creation of Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. In the early 1890s, Jenkins began creating the projector. He later met Thomas Armat, who provided financial backing and assisted with necessary modifications.