Insightful America on Instagram: "Before Netflix. Before YouTube. Even before cinema as we know it—there was the Mutoscope. Invented in 1894 by Herman Casler, this coin-operated machine brought moving images to life one flip card at a time. Instead of projecting onto a screen, it used a rotating drum filled with photographs that flipped rapidly as you turned a hand crank—essentially a massive mechanical flipbook. Each frame was a real photograph, and at roughly $1 per image, even a short reel co

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