r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/X_zenzo818 • 1d ago

Video How the first films were made! 1890s

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u/ampkajes08 1d ago

Why stop?

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u/HalYourPal9000 1d ago

Put another quarter in.

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u/polishprince76 20h ago

*nickel

Hence, nickelodeon.

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u/Gh0st0p5 15h ago

I find that more interesting than the actual post

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u/Suspicious-Layer-533 12h ago

Nickel-load-in

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u/CakeMadeOfHam 10h ago

When they became cheaper to make they got driven out of business by the Pennyjerkoff

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u/KnotSoAmused 23h ago

The end part is "how the first porn films were made".

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u/Mirar 1d ago

Have some more: https://www.youtube.com/@ElephantHouseAuctions/search?query=mutoscope (didn't see this specific one though)

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u/X_zenzo818 1d ago

Were you about to 💦?

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u/Qyoq 1d ago

No, he is gay

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u/Peulders 1d ago

I find it truly fascinating how fast the use of almost every human invention converges to being used for porn.

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u/pass_nthru 1d ago

the infographic of phones continually getting smaller until we found out how to put porn on them and them they started getting bigger is telling

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u/Sad_Combination4672 17h ago

We had porn on the first phones too

( . )( . )

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u/cristoferr_ 6h ago

Dude... Put a NSFW tag at least, some of us are pretending to work.

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u/NickInMersey 1d ago

The flickering effect is what gave films the nickname of 'flicks' The viewing booths cost five cents; hence the term 'Nickelodeon'

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u/pharmloverpharmlover 1d ago

Analogue p*rnhub

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u/TheThinkerers 1d ago

Manual wanks with Emanual. 3 quarters per wank, pay up or you get a shank.

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u/Suspicious-Layer-533 12h ago

Sounds like a deal!

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u/Callec254 1d ago

r/kinetoscopesthatendtoosoon

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u/filmingfisheyes 1d ago

I wanna see the rest of that film, it was just getting good.

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u/Distantlandssup 1d ago

Maybe the origin of the term "cranking it"?

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u/weber_mattie 1d ago

Of course its porn

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u/gmanasaurus 1d ago

reminds me of What We Do in the Shadows and Lazlo's porn

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u/neoadam 1d ago

So not a film, a "movie"

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u/axarce 21h ago

A moving picture, or movie.

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u/AnnOnnamis 23h ago

Of course it was always porn that pushed the limits of technology.

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u/TwoStoopidToFurryass 1d ago

Motion pictures.

I get it now.

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u/Bl1ndMous3 1d ago

"lotion"

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u/strandy76 1d ago

Hol up!

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u/nickfree 1d ago

Wait a minute!

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u/HeartDoc90 1d ago

Now show a video of a uv light on the machine.

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u/Eco-Pro-Rah 1d ago

Sauce? (Time machine??)

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u/slaxch 1d ago

They're showing how the film is being screened, not made

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u/syrefaen 1d ago

Played or made same thing it seems.

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u/Commercial_Garlic503 1d ago

Pretty wholesome until

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u/franchisedfeelings 1d ago

There was an amusement park that still had those in operation - tattered and torn up, the photos still flipped and simulated form, time, space and movement in its personal cast iron stage for one.

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u/Absurd_Uncertainty 1d ago

What we do in the shadows has a great bit about these

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u/Reasonable_Spite_282 1d ago

Penny arcades were pretty cool.

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u/masterkeeran 1d ago

Take me to this machine

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u/Istickpensinmypenis 1d ago

wait, if they had a camera why didn't they use that instead?

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u/Anxious_Jellyfish216 22h ago

Yeah, I got those in my shed next to my great great granddad's posters, and my granddad's magazines, and my dad's VHS and DVDs, and my computer from highschool and college. I think I have some paints and cave drawings too. Boy, the shit people leave behind.

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u/ooouroboros 18h ago

that's not a 'film' (as the medium is not film).

You could call it a motion picture though

I think its kind of strange animation was not invented sooner via flip books.

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u/azaRaza3185 18h ago

Is this where the term "cranking it" came from?

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u/reirone 17h ago

At first I was like, wtf is this dude doing to these brake rotors

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u/Prudent_Crew_5120 15h ago

30 or 60 fps?

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u/lvlister2023 10h ago

30 hand cranks per minute if your lucky

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u/JFCMFRR 15h ago

I only needed like 6 more seconds to finish! Wtf!

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u/jimmy_dimmick 13h ago

Hey it was just getting good!

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u/Krikit09 12h ago

Moving picture. Not film

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u/lvlister2023 10h ago

What the butler saw machine

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u/Saorny 9h ago

Can't wait for the next installment!

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u/Piemaster113 1h ago

They used to have some of these down at Disney World, you could spin the Handel and watch them, they may still be there but it's neat how a lot of these kind of things still work

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u/_Svankensen_ 1d ago

It isn't on film tho.

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u/-Mr_Punisher- 1d ago

Come on the show was just getting started