 The motion picture was of a vaudeville entertainer performing a butterfly dance, which Jenkins had filmed himself.Jenkins filed for a patent for the Phantoscope projector in November 1894 and it was issued in March 1895.A modified version of the Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison, who named it Edison's Vitascope and began projecting motion pictures in New York City vaudeville theaters, raising the curtain on American cinema.