The Americans first "contrived a way of producing an illusion of motion through successive images," but "the French were able to transform a scientific principle into a commercially lucrative spectacle".
” “美国人首先创造了一种方法，能通过连续的画面制造出视觉上的运动幻觉”，然而，“法国人将这一项科学发明转变成为一种能盈利的商业演出”。