因为The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.In the peepshow format,a film was viewed through a small opening in a machine that was created for that purpose.Thomas Edison's peepshow device,the Kinetoscope,was introduced to the public in 1894.It was designed for use in Kinetoscope parlors,or arcades,which contained only a few( 9individual ）machines and permitted only one customer to view a short,50-foot film a9t any one time.The first Kin0etoscop9e parlors contained five machines.For the price of 25 cents (or 5 cents per machine),customers moved from machine to machine to watch five different films (or,in the case of famous prizefights,successive rounds of a single fight). 因为The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.In the peepshow format,a film was viewed through a small opening in a machine that was created for that purpose.Thomas Edison's peepshow device,the Kinetoscope,was introduced to the public in 1894.It was designed for use in Kinetoscope parlors,or arcades,which contained only a few( 9individual ）machines and permitted only one customer to view a short,50-foot film a9t any one time.The first Kin0etoscop9e parlors contained five machines.For the price of 25 cents (or 5 cents per machine),customers moved from machine to machine to watch five different films (or,in the case of famous prizefights,successive rounds of a single fight).