Did you Know? The first motion picture camera was called the kinetoscope.
The camera, invented by Thomas Edison and William Dickson, allowed a single person to view a film through a peephole window at the top of the device. The only surviving Kinetoscope film is the 1890 test film "Monkeyshines, No. 1."
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