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Events on Saturday 14 April 1894 1
1894Edison's Kinetoscope parlors openThe first commercial motion-picture venue opens in New YorkThe first Kinetoscope parlor, showing short films through Thomas Edison's peep-hole viewing device, opened on Broadway in New York City on 14 April 1894. Viewers paid to watch brief moving images individually rather than as a projected shared screening. The parlors were an early step toward the commercial cinema industry that emerged in the following decade.