Edison’s movie magic caught the world’s fancy. In 1894, two Americans named Franck Maguire and Joseph Baucus acquired the world rights on the kinetoscope, outside the U.S. and Canada, and started to market it. Edison did not take international patents on his movie camera and the viewing machine. Therefore, many inventors in Europe copied and modified them, making improvements.
Movies projected on to a screen were soon to follow. The first commercially viable projector was invented by the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis. They were inspired by an exhibition of Edison’s kinetoscope in Paris, and sought to combine the movie camera with a projector. Their new device was called the Cinematographe. Thus, the Lumiere brothers first brought the cinema to large audiences, basing their efforts on Edison’s Kinetoscope.
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