The Kinora was the world’s first home movie entertainment system.
It followed the same principle as a flip book: a reel with a series of photographic images was placed in a player, and by turning the crank handle the images were displayed one after another, creating the illusion of movement.
As the image was not projected, viewing was limited to one person or a small group.
Kinora players are very rare. Due to the circular construction of the reel it was not possible for it to be laid flat on a scanner to digitise the photographic images, so NFSA experts had to build a device that could replicate the mechanism of a Kinora player, in order to photograph each frame individually.