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Around 1889, Edison assembled a team of muckers, led by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, to work on this project. They created the Strip Kinetograph, a very early movie camera. The "strip" was a length of long, flexible film invented for use with a conventional camera. It could be wrapped around a wheel or a spool, unlike earlier photographic film. The Strip Kinetograph captured photos so quickly that they appeared to move.
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