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William Dickson and his team, at the Edison lab, simultaneously worked on the development of the [[Kinetoscope]] viewing machine. The first working prototype, using the 19mm film, was unveiled in May 1891 to a meeting of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, hosted by his wife. The 35mm camera was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the 35mm Kinetoscope was unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Who's Who of Victorian Cinema|url=https://www.victorian-cinema.net/edison|website=www.victorian-cinema.net|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref> It was a [[peep show]] machine showing a continuous loop of film, lit by a small lamp, viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components.
William Dickson and his team created the illusion of movement by continuously moving the strip of [[film perforations|perforated film]], bearing sequential images, whilst illuminating it by brief flashes of light through the slit in a rotating [[shutter (photography)|shutter]]. They also devised the [[Kinetograph]], a [[movie camera|motion picture camera]]
In late 1894 or early 1895, William Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies, and their father, [[Woodville Latham]] who had lectured in science. Seeking to develop a [[movie projector]] system, they hired former Edison employee [[Eugene Lauste]], probably at Dickson's suggestion. In April 1895, Dickson left Edison's employ and provided some assistance to the Latham outfit. Alongside Lauste, he may have devised what would become known as the [[Latham loop]], allowing the photography and exhibition of much longer filmstrips than had previously been possible.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 1|url=https://friesegreene.com/2020/05/20/happy-125th-birthday-cinema-part-1/|last=Domankiewicz|first=Peter|date=2020-05-20|website=William Friese-Greene & Me|language=en|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref> This idea had first been made public in 1890 in descriptions of the moving picture camera of [[William Friese-Greene]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=April 19, 1890|title=A Machine Camera For Taking Ten Photographs A Second|journal=Scientific American Supplement|volume=29|issue=746|pages=11921}}</ref> These former Edison associates helped to design the [[Eidoloscope]] projector system and a widescreen camera to film with, which would be used in the first commercial movie screening in world history on 20 May 1895.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 2|url=https://friesegreene.com/2020/05/20/happy-125th-birthday-cinema-part-2/|last=Domankiewicz|first=Peter|date=2020-05-20|website=William Friese-Greene & Me|language=en|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref> But Dickson soon parted company with them, to become part of the group that formed the [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company]], returning permanently to work in the United Kingdom in 1897 for the British side of the company. William Dickson was the first person to make a film of the [[Pope]], and at the time his Biograph camera was blessed by [[Pope Leo XIII]].
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