 He gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors, with programs including "Pauvre Pierrot" and "Autour d'une cabine".Thomas Edison initially believed film screening would not be as viable commercially as presenting films in peep boxes, hence the film apparatus that his company would first exploit became the kinetoscope.A few public demonstrations occurred since 9 May 1893, before a first public Kinetoscope parlor was opened on April 14, 1894, by the Holland Bros. in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street.