'We are now all living in a peepshow. Continually being watched by mechanical peeping toms on every street corner,' he said.
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 treater.
In the peepshow format, a film was viewed through a small opening in a machine that was created for that purpose.