Kinetoscopes

* See also Kinetoscope Analysis
* See also Audio Diaries
* See also Need to Know Theater ( Regurgitation in Rapture of what by then was a 'dated idea' )
Real World : "The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled on May 9, 1893"
Kinetoscope : The Game writers probably did a search for things in 1893 (the exposition year) and this popped up, and they latched onto it (( and unfortunatle later disgustedly DLC-regurgitated it into OUR Rapture - WHERE IT FRICKEN DIDN'T MAKE SENSE )).
Lazy Infinite Bull$h*t
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Hey Kenny, "Kinetoscopes" Don't Have Sound Recordings :
Sound Recordings were too complicated to do in the Real World back then ( This is another example of the game writers "winging it", again ). If it is to be claimed 'a result of advanced quantumz whatever', obtained through 'Tears', or some other BS excuse, THEN WHY NOT SOMETHING MORE ADVANCED than this cobbled together half-assed thing ? If you have sound, then you would have far better picture quality - maybe even color. It is just Cute pretend-period nostalgic grainy sepia-tone Fantasy ( rather feeble game-mechanics-wise ), and mostly done as another 'findable' (Achievement) backstory mechanism, bits being dribbled to the PlayerThough several game commentators have said this mechanism in Infinite BS didn't really add all that much to the story.. 
There's NO REASON why real life situation would justify the presented Kinetoscope use : Grand History goes into archives/museums somewhere. Educational ? Citizens FORCED to see Rah-Rah-Prophet Propaganda ?? Children beaten if they don't watch ( Where's the StepStool and Punishment straps ?? ) ?? This thing is a very inefficient/feeble way of doing propaganda for that purpose. We see many Projectors elsewhere - Wouldn't films ( with SOUND !!!! ) have been a FAR MORE EFFECTIVE public propaganda mechanism ??? (( It is so Feeb-Derpish )) This type of machine had a meager (short) viewing content, which was only worthy of a transitory newspaper article - barely a newsreel.
They might rather have been 'old' machines from the original Columbia Show City - Showing off Columbia being developed/built ( used by sight-seeing Tourists who only came to Columbia ONCE at the 1893 Exposition - BACK When such a Kinetoscope machine would be 'Modern' ). Still, they'd most likely all be broken/obsolete 20 years later ... Hardly anyone in the limited population would waste money after seeing the same film showings again and again for years (( Oh But IF "Infinite Money" is available for Columbia ... My Bad. Oops even that is no good - These machines don't show anything NEW. )) So it really does NOT make much sense building/using these machines to show off/view THE STUFF THEY HAD THEM SHOW IN THE GAME -- SHOWED TO people who LIVED OVER A DECADE IN COLUMBIA. 
ALTERNATIVE : Innovation ( a properly presented 'viewing' machine ) would be the ability of selectively viewing between 100+ different such 'stories' as 'News Machines' --- Not paper - So you could have a 1984-ish story/history revision thing going on, *AND* they could in-game 'point out' the changing ( multi-dimension switched ) backstory IN THE MACHINES to the Player. And ( as part of the game's story progression ) you would constantly get NEW stories/presentations reflecting the Player's Columbia-Menacing activity They did that in Rapture with TV showing pictures of Jack and Delta as a public alert.. But those also might better be Projected up on 'News Walls' -- That way showing a Comstock/Founders biased narrative of things currently/recently happening - including current events the Player JUST took part in. 
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 *Triple Dog Stupid* IS : These Fricken Weird Old Machines then being seen present in Rapture in Burial At Sea ( BUT that is another separate dim-witted/lazy game DLC writer/designer stupid botch-up ).
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Kinetoscope - "A Fun Day At A Lynching" :
IF they have regular public Stonings"Public Stonings" : Oldie, Bilbical-type, Public Executions of transgressors done by the Citizens. at Fairs in Columbia, THEN certainly Public Lynching would be another popular offering ( Remember that Police States have to terrorize the lower classes into obedience ).
To continue the milque-toast qualities of Kenny Boi's 'realism', it probably would have to be made obvious it was an Irishman being lynched to make it less offensive to the Players (( So it would not be so offputting from the popular activities of disemboweling, shooting, and blowing up humans done in the rest of the game )).
Instructive ... ( SLO-MO effect with the sound of the gagging as the neck didn't snap - and closeup of the face ... )
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== ANALYSIS ==
"The Envy of All His Peers" (Kinetoscope Analysis) : 
The Kinetoscope "The Word of the Prophet Presents"
"Looks like Jimmy's friends are jealous ... *dejected* ... because Jimmy's dad gave him a pack of
Minor Victory *smoking guy smiles* ... Minor Victory - The only brand designed especially for kids ..."
So the Prophet sells ciggies .... Oooooh, 'profit' . I get it (( Though I don't think the writers did - More apropos would have been : Computer game 'Profit' being the poisoning of true imaginative Effort ... ))
It is sad ( and worrying/disturbing ) that THIS apparently is the vision that Levine & Co have of 'religion' ( the big commercialization in the holy city ). He seems to have a strange vision of some homogenized Religion element for America WHICH WAS NEVER THERE. Yes sad, such a simpleton way of thinking. 
BTW, Where exactly IS the Tobacco Plantation in Columbia ? OR more important : Evidence of ANY source of foodstuffs being grown for Columbia ? REAL Cities have to Eat you know. ( Tobacco Imported I suppose - NO evidence for that importation operating for Columbia though ... and its stuff from the 'Sodom Below'. )
'Lookee yonder' - an Overseer giving a slave a whipping ... Oooh that might 'offend' too many sensitivities'Writer Sensitivities' - Prattling, self-preening babboon-brain game developer/writer 'sensitivities'. there ( Coulda required all the 'ethnics' to wear masks to soften them for general Politically Correct game-viewing, No ? (( Hey, That works for dehumanizing NPC game opponents the Player is expected to Violently Slaughter wholesale, Don't It ??? )) The KKK wore hoods - Wouldnt that have been appropriate in this intended narrative ?
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Hmmm - "Columbia City, Cannibal City ... The Founders Feast on the Cattle ...") See Alternate_Alternates
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"Need To Know" - Burial At Sea Kinetoscopes (So Bizarre) In Rapture :
THERE IS NO logical reason to have these technological throwbacks in Rapture ( HEY Its the Age of TV, Morons !!! ) - if they are supposedly to be considered some era-matching Propaganda campaign by Ryan ( certainly as public coin-operated Porno Theaters ( 'private view' Vending machines ) they would be far more logical ). With REAL propaganda, the more people who see the message the better. So instead there should be : Just showing the presentation in a loop on a public TV Screen ( If several messages, then cycle through them, along with useful 'News updates'/'Current Time' to keep people's interest/attention ) -- A mechanism which multiple people could watch simultaneously, and conveniently become 'informed' ( even at a distance ).
This "Need To Know" thing is just the Rotting Leftovers from the Infinite BS game mechanism ( perhaps projecting it on a open in-game walkabout TV game object apparently was ineffective/undoable in the Game Engine ? Some simple Trigger/Rendering issue making it TOO hard to implement ?? ). NOTE - The in-game Kinetoscopes are Player activated ( like an Audio Diary ) so to be an easily controlled (programmed) game interface, and used to present some of the the usual game filler 'Backstory' material/narrative. Perhaps this is just a continuation of the Infinitized Writers 'take' of shoving things in Players faces ? For The Above TV idea - Players might 'miss it' (or half of it) as they scurry about shooting things. 
The strange Kinetoscope existence ( now as common Rapture 'devices' ) - is merely there to game justifies use of the subverted ones seen in Burial At Sea - Like the one changed/modified to spew Atlas's propaganda, or custom ones like Cohen's film 'art', OR to enable that one with the (inevitable) 'Jump Scare' gimmick.
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WELL, it IS DLC - Par for it to mostly be cheap developer idea/programming/Asset Recyclings. BioShock's Ghost Stories were innovative ( We coulda had them again ... ). Unfortunately, we are not likely to get much good new stuff in a DLC production.
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Alternate Idea for the Otherwise Anachronistic Kinetoscope 'News' Machine Seen in Rapture in BaS :
"Need to Know Theater" - We can turn that lazy (recycled) out-of-place out-dated idea from DLC into a more Rapture-like improvement/innovation.   Supposedly 'Free' and (many) placed for propaganda/informational purposes in public areas - Why weren't they simply a TV screen - like we saw the same thing done (everywhere) in BS1/BS2 ?
The devices presentation INSTEAD should be a '3D' Movie ( something you cannot do on a screen without the glasses ).   No, they didn't think of that, or the machines would have said "3D" on them to set it apart from Newsreels seen in the Theaters, or those other (widely employed) public TVs.
Stereoscopic pictures date back to the 1860s, but moving pictures came much later.  Rapture may have had at least one theater with the '3D' gimmick (popular in the 1950s) and the '3D' Glasses.
That brings up the possibility that the MMORPG ( by the time it or anything like it are actually done ) will be played in '3D' VR "Virtual Reality".
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Stupid Thing #213 - Columbia - Surfin' on Battleship Bay :
Is it possible that the game writers don't even know how Surfing works (or just more vague cheap window-dressing 'good enuf' idea stuff without any bother to MAKE it properly (( "THINK MUCH ?" )) )? 
BTW - Surfing was something 'dark-skinned' people did on the other side of the World at that time, and that kinda runs contrary to the writer's whole 'Holy White Bread' theme of Columbia. The way to Hell is paved with small stupid details.
 
A Waterfall off the edge of Columbia ???? ( Good view of it in one of the Kinetoscopes ). With such weak glitzy Fantasy like this, WHY should "humans" (characters/plots/story) behave normally with any semblance of being real (relevant), WHEN you are shown to already be in La-la-land. ( Have them be gun-totin pirates shooting at each other with guns like in "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride at Disneyland ... )
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Note - Battleship Bay is the location they picked to have the most interactive (non-shooting-area) NPC Scripting, which BTW was really NOT that sophisticated anyway, being simple activation of pre-canned motions, after which the NPCs stood there like stunned rabbits. 
(( What does it matter, when 'in the end' anything and everything you did in the game doesn't matter a bean - Except for the glee of the blood spurting/splodey action ( 'Execution' moves !!!!!), and the $$$ the game company extracted from your wallet for this second-rate game. ))
"Its a Small World" on steroids (except less believable).
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Kinetoscope Analysis
 "Solving the Irish Problem" ( Comstock's FINAL SOLUTION ??? ) :
Found in Columbia, The Arcade, end of the hallway near "Whites-Only" restrooms.
Narrated Transcript : 
: Meet THE DRUNK! THE LAGGARD! - Man passed out dead drunk at bar counter
: Meet THE STRUMPET! His BROOD MARE! - Women scrubs laundry against washboard, while children cry around her
: Together, they manufacture future VOX POPULI recruits! - Footage of people protesting
: "Send them to me!" Says Jeremiah Fink at Fink MFG. - Image of statue featuring a confident man with pocket watch, surrounded by his wife and children; statue base reads "Your Future is Finkton"
: "They'll work, or by God, die trying!" - Men stand at attention facing giant clock indicating "Work"
FIN
"Arbeit Macht Frei" - Is this what Levine&Co thought America was - like Hitler's "Final Solution" ???
SHOULD BE More Like : The Irish Kill Fink and Comstock and take this Flying Prison down to the ground, get off and burn it to ashes ( No need for the stupid VOX 'resistance' crap ). The Irish didn't come to America to face this kinda shit all over again See "Irish History For Fricken Dummies" - The Luck of the Irish.. The whole place (Columbia) could so easily be sabotaged/burned-out ( You don't need guns for that ). Better : THEY WOULD NEVER COME TO A HELL LIKE THIS 'IN THE FIRST PLACE', NOR STAY, NOR LONG PUT UP WITH IT. Its also so 1840s, when the Potato Famine FORCED the Irish people to Flee or Die. It makes no sense for this by 1890s or later. But lazy hack writers will be lazy hack writers ... 
It is just so much Contrived Rubbish ( Why would WASP-ish 'Eden' even have such people allowed in ?? ) - Who wrote this dumbshit crap, or allowed the thrice-rewritten game to get THIS stupid ? (( Hint - THAT'S Someone with initials K L ))
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Kinetoscope - "The envy of all his peers" :
OMG, O M G !!!! A CHILD smoking AND THEY HAVE A BRAND JUST FOR CHILDREN !!! ... *T H E HUMANITY* !!!!!
More inept BS. Kids commonly smoked in that time ( If they could even afford it ), and just used adult brands of Tobacco products (rolled their own too). (( Seriously, "YOU weak-kneed people of the Future" is what the people back then would call many of our modern 'enlightened' people. ))
OMG !!!! They also CHEWED Tobacco !!!!! How very terribly Horrible it was in those days, No ?
Cigarette Cardshttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cigarette+cards&qpvt=cigarette+cards, Columbia style - "Famous Spectacular Stonings and Lynchings" was the most popular series of these cards.
"1890s - The Women's Christian Temperance Movement publishes a Pamphlet "Narcotics", by E. B. Ingalls. It discusses the evils of numerous drugs, tobacco, cocaine, ginger, hashish, and headache medicines." (Real World)
"Good thing That The Dastardly Herb "Ginger" never made it to the hands of Columbia's children, Thank the Prophet!!!"
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1900 - A popular notion of the day, says, "There are many [cigarettes] whose Tobacco has been mixed with Opium or some other drug, and whose wrapper has been saturated in a solution of arsenic.".
(Of course that was a vast improvement over the modern cigarettes whose Tobacco has been adulterated with cow dung and recycled toilet paper).
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Kinetoscope - "Unholy Mystery in Columbia" -- *FIXED* :
: ( A woman in the background stares bewildered at a crazy crackling disruption in the air )
: Columbia is utterly fearful at unfamiliar sights ...
: ( A woman in the foreground shrieks and covers her face at the unnatural phenomenon )
: What the hell is it?! Prophet Save US !!!
: ( The shimmering haze appears on the pediment of a building )
: What are these Satan-spawned astonishments, which appear and disappear?
: ( Rosalind Lutece stands against a locked gate separating her from a clamoring club-wielding crowd )
: Columbia's greatest mind just isn't saying ...
: ( A howling crowd seizes her and mouths the shout "SHES A WITCH... BURN HER" )
: Whats now happening here ? A Witch Burning !!!
: ( Wood is piled up and Rosalind Lutece is tied to a stake in its midst )
: BURN Witch BURN !!!!!
: ( The crackling flames leap and the burning figure twists grotesquely and something bursts )
:Columbia will Stomach no Witches !! Hallelujah !!!
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REGURGITATION STATION - Kinetoscopes Recycled In Burial At Sea
Why they would have these things in Rapture when they had more modern TVs and Film Projection useable.
It was DLC, and they simply reused Infinite BS game programming and scripting to save time and cost.
It was barely logical in 1912, when technologies were supposed to have been Tear-advanced.
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