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In April 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlour was opened in a converted storefront in New York City. The parlour charged 25 cents for admission to a bank of five machines. The syndicate of Maguire and Baucus acquired the foreign rights to the Kinetoscope in 1894 and began to market the machines. England's first Kinetoscope parlour opened in Oxford Street, London, in October. Edison had declined to file for international patents on either his camera or his viewing device, and as a result the machines were copied by Robert Paul in Britain, and others in Europe. |  |
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