Today in 1894, the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures in history was given in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes.
Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—Edison’s Kinetoscope introduced the basic a…
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