invented by Thomas A. Edison and W. Dickson.
It
was a cabinet showing unenlarged black-and-white films running about 90 seconds. An individual watched through a peephole as the film moved on spools.Kinetoscope parlours opened in several cities.
However, they were soon replaced by projection machines that threw greatly enlarged pictures on a screen.
These new machines allowed many people to watch one film at the same time.