Visual
novelties were commonplace vaudeville and the vitascope now
found place vaudeville programs all over the U.
The popularity the vitascope grew quickly that
Edison had take notice.
Businessmen bought franchises from Raff Gammon and took the
vitascope the road, spreading the fame the moving picture
and attracting more entrepreneurs the industry.S.VII-22
machine the Works and have sold the Edison vitascope. The
newspapers, unconcerned with its true provenance, hailed
Edison's latest invention another marvel the West Orange
laboratory. letter
written Armat some time later, Edison acknowledged that the
Armat machine was superior the one Edison had the time.
He stopped Kayser's work build Armat's machine, which was
. While the founder busied himself
with planning spectacular train crashes filmed, the
Kinetoscope department the Edison Manufacturing Company
struggled meet orders for films. The movies mass entertainment had begun. Despite having the largest
. This was a
turning point the history the motion picture; interest
was again high point and the motion picture had found a
much larger audience than the customers for peep shows.
The debut the Edison/Armat projector was Roster &
Bial's music hall New York City April 1896. ji
the first commercial projector the American market.
There was good business sense this the business community
had grown aware the commercial potential projection and
were waiting for Edison projection machine
