Kinora IET Archive Library

The Kinora was an early motion picture device, a form of mutoscope designed by Auguste and Louis Lumière and manufactured in London by Kinora Limited between about 1895 and 1914. The Kinora worked very like a flip book or a Rolodex, using images which were conventional monochrome photographic prints fixed to strong, flexible cards attached to a circular core. As it was unable to project pictures, it could only be used by one or two people at a time, so was most suitable for home use. In the years before th