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托福阅读OG四：早期电影【附PDF完整版】
摘要： 托福阅读OG是托福ETS官网唯一官网指南的精华资料，托福阅读OG题量不是很多，难度比不上托福阅读TPO，只是为大家介绍下托福阅读OG题型，是ETS官网给出的应试指南，尤其是第一次参加托福考试的考生一定要认真对待。
托福 阅读OG四：早期电影 EARLY CINEMA (OG)
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater. In the peepshow format, a film was viewed through a small opening in a machine that was created for that purpose. Thomas Edison's peepshow device, the Kinetoscope, was introduced to the public in 1894. It was designed for use in Kinetoscope parlors, or arcades, which contained only a few individual machines and permitted only one customer to view a short, 50-foot film at any one time. The first Kinetoscope parlors contained five machines. For the price of 25 cents (or 5 cents per machine), customers moved from machine to machine to watch five different films (or, in the case of famous prizefights, successive rounds of a single fight).
These Kinetoscope arcades were modeled on phonograph parlors, which had proven successful for Edison several years earlier. In the phonograph parlors, customers listened to recordings through individual ear tubes, moving from one machine to the next to hear different recorded speeches or pieces of music