Le kinetoscope (10 Newark avenue, <9> novembre 1894)

Un kinetoscope est installé en novembre sur la Newark avenue :

WONDERFUL LIVING PICTURES
Edison’s Magical Kinetoscope in Jersey City.
Edison's latest wonder, the Kinetonoscope, is now on exhibition at No. 10 Newark avenue for a brief period only. The machine is a mechanical device operated by electricity, which is so constructed by the fertile brain of Thomas A. Edison that it runs photographic views past a given point at a speed of about forty-six each second of time.
In the top of the cabinet of the Kinetoscope is a small window covered with clear glass. The person who desires to witness the reproduction of the views looks down through this window, and the photographic views pass before his eyes with such rapidity that he beholds one continuous view.
In the famous barber shop scene the beholder, who is looking down through the window of the Kinetoscope cabinet, sees the interior of a barber shop.
A man is reclining upon a barber’s chair, about to be shaved. The barber goes to his case, secures his cup, makes a lather with which he proceeds to lather the man’s face.
Meanwhile a colored gentleman, who is probably acting in the capacity of porter, boot-black and jack-of-all-trades, is moving about the room. He picks up a newspaper and sits down to read it. Another customer comes in, pulls off hat and coat, takes a cigar from his vest pocket, lights it, picks up a paper and sits down to smoke, read and await his turn. The colored gentleman aforesaid finds something very funny in the newspaper he is reading, and thereupon he crosses the room and points out the amusing article to the waiting customer. They both laugh and show every sign of amusement.
Meanwhile the barber has been shaving his man, and both the “shaver” and the “shavee” have been going through many motions, the one plainly evincing his desire to hurry through the work of shaving and be ready for the “next,” the other as plainly showing the results of this immoderate haste on the part of his “executioner” by sundry grimaces and winces when the razor takes off sections of his cuticule. This is only one of the many scenes which are now reproduced through the medium of the wonderful Kinetoscope.
The possibilities of these marvelous machines can harly be estimated. Views and scenes can be taken all over the world. Anything in motion can be photographed and reproduced exactly true to nature. From the effect produced by slowly rising clouds of smoke, to the falling of water at Niagara; from the rounds of a prize fight or the heats of a horse race, to the flashing of the lightning in the cloud-bedarkened heavens—nothing is beyond the reach of the Kinetograph and, in turn, a faithful reproduction by means of the Kinetoscope. Even a bullet, shot from a gun, has been photographed by the Kinetograph, so swift is its action.
What a detective! What an aid to science and the arts! What a recorder of scenes and events. Hereafter, that which takes place in any part of the world can be recorded permanently, and be reproduced, just as it took place, in every other part of the world. Events which people go hundreds and even thousands of miles to see, can now be brought to their very doors.
Among the other subjects now on exhibition are “The Barber Shop,” “Sandow,” “The Blacksmith Shop,” "The Barroom,” “Carmencita,” “Glenoroy Bros.,” “French Danseuse,” “Bucking Bronchoes.” The place will be open daily from 10 A. M. to 11 P. M, Ladies are especially invited to attend these exhibitions. Phonographs are also on exhibition, producing songs and recitations from leading actors and actresses.

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The Jersey City News, Jersey City, vendredi 9 novembre 1894, p. 1.