His kinetoscope provided a way of looking at them.

他的活动电影映机提供了一种观看它们的方式。

Edison was more interested in the sale of Kinetoscopes (for roughly $1,000 apiece) to these parlors than in the films that would be run in them (which cost approximately $10 to $15 each).

更感兴趣于活动电影映机（每台约1000美元）的销售量而不是将要在其的胶片（每个约花费10到15美元）。

Tom was interested in moving pictures. In October 1888 he had written, " I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear. . . . This apparatus I call a Kinetoscope— 'Moving View.'"

汤姆对电影很感兴趣。 1888 年 10 月，他写道：“我正在对一种仪器进行实验，它对眼睛的作用就像留声机对耳朵的作用… … 我称这种设备为活动电影映机——‘移动视角’。”