Hundreds of Kinora reels and various Kinora viewers were manufactured, ranging from basic wooden hand-cranked versions to luxury clockwork-driven models with multiple windows mounted on cast pedestals. In France, they were produced by the film production company Gaumont. In England, they were initially produced by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company and, after 1907, by the Kinora Company and Bond's Limited in London.
The Kinora Company remodeled the original Lumière version and successfully introduced it to the British market. According to film historian Barry Anthony, who reconstructed the history of the Kinora system in his book The Kinora: Motion Pictures for the Home, 1894-1914, the Kinora was considered "the most successful of the 'home movie' machines marketed in Britain before 1912".
In 1914, a fire destroyed the London factory, leading to the discontinuation of the Kinora system.