The first ever commercial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Film">motion picture</a> house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope" id="mwpg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kinetoscope">Kinetoscopes</a>, devices for peep-show viewing of films.<sup about="#mwt98" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_14#cite_note-18" id="mwpw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwqA">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt95" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCharles_Musser1994">Charles Musser (4 May 1994). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IEUMWToGOtUC&amp;pg=PA81" id="mwCDE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCDI">The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907</i></a>. University of California Press. p.<span id="mwCDM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>81. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCDQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCDU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-520-08533-6" id="mwCDY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-08533-6"><bdi id="mwCDc">978-0-520-08533-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt95" class="Z3988" id="mwCDg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Emergence+of+Cinema%3A+The+American+Screen+to+1907&amp;rft.pages=81&amp;rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&amp;rft.date=1994-05-04&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-520-08533-6&amp;rft.au=Charles+Musser&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIEUMWToGOtUC%26pg%3DPA81&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+14"></span></span>