Eidophor
type: Item
description: first video projector
Type of information: equipment
Field: lighting and projection
subclass of: Projectors (digital, electronic)
Source URL: Eidophor
Wikidata source: Q465147
date earliest documented use: 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
inventor: Fritz Fischer
Source: Patent for a process and appliance for projecting television pictures, Fritz Fischer, 1939
context: The fact is that Svoboda, along with Polieri, is considered one of the forerunners of this use of technology on stage. of this use of technology on stage. In partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute of Technology (MIT) and Channel Two of Boston Television, he developed for Intolleranza a device ‘broadcasting live via three screens arranged on the scene (via three in the scene (via three eidophores)19 images filmed live from different places’.
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