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).

爱迪生更感兴趣于活动电影放映（每台大约1000美元）销售量而不是将要在其中播放胶片（每个大约花费10到15美元）。

And certainly based on the accounts of seeing that cinematograph, there was a very famous director, well, somebody who became a famous director at the time.

当然， 根据当时观看过那种活动电影放映描述，有一位非常着名导演， 或者说，当时成为着名导演人物。

This short film, known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, was recorded in 1894 to test a new moving picture machine called the Kinetoscope.

这部名为弗雷德·奥特喷嚏短片于 1894 年录制，用于测试一种名为活动电影放映新型电影。

It's only fitting that people got their first glimpses of motion pictures here in 1894 with a contraption called the kinetoscope.

1894 年，人们在这里第一次看到电影是很恰当，这是一种叫做活动电影放映装置。

His kinetoscope provided a way of looking at them.

他活动电影放映提供了一种观看它们方式。

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：“我正在对一种仪进行实验，它对眼睛作用就像留声对耳朵作用… … 我称这种设备为活动电影放映——‘移动视角’。”