Kinora

The Kinora was an early motion picture device developed by the French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1895, while simultaneously working on the Cinematograph.

[1] Basically a miniature version of the mutoscope for home use, the Kinora worked very much like a flip book in the shape of a Rolodex.

[2][3] The Cinematograph proved very successful so the Lumières did not bother with the Kinora but passed the idea on to Gaumont,who marketed the device and about a hundred different reels around 1900.

Flip books of 60 pictures in standard Mutoscope size were produced there as Bio-Gems, before a Kinora reel portrait service became available in 1903.

[4] By 1914, when the company's London factory burned down, public interest in the Kinora had declined, as the cinema screen now held greater attractions.