Developing Stop Motion Animation

In March of 1895, Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat made an agreement, their aim was to develop a motion picture device. Jenkins had already invented a device for viewing motion pictures, the Phantoscope, a device similar to the Edison Kinetoscope. Because of his knowledge with motion pictures, he and Armat were able to create a version of the Phantoscope that projects its short films.
Despite them working well together the pair split, and Armat took the device to Edison, with the intention that he would develop the machine.
Edison agreed and in he February of 1869, the projecting Phantoscope was given a new name, the Vitascope. With the quick success of the device, other competitors started to develop their own projection systems in American theaters