Editing Mutoscope (section)

==Public response==
''The San Francisco Call'' printed a short piece about the Mutoscope in 1898, which claimed that the device was extremely popular: "Twenty machines, all different and amusing views...are crowded day and night with sightseers."<ref>{{cite news |date=6 November 1898 |title=The Mutoscope |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18981106.2.142&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Mutoscope-------1 |newspaper=The San Francisco Call |location=San Francisco, CA |access-date=4 January 2017}}</ref> However, just a few months later, the same newspaper published an editorial railing against the Mutoscope and similar machines: "...a new instrument has been placed in the hands of the vicious for the corruption of youth...These vicious exhibitions are displayed in San Francisco with an effrontery that is as audacious as it is shameless."<ref>{{cite news |date=1 April 1899 |title=The Corruption of Youth |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990401.2.76&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Mutoscope-------1 |newspaper=The San Francisco Call |location=San Francisco, CA |access-date=4 January 2017}}</ref>

In 1899, ''[[The Times]]'' also printed a letter inveighing against "vicious demoralising picture shows in the penny-in-the-slot machines. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the corruption of the young that comes from exhibiting under a strong light, nude female figures represented as living and moving, going into and out of baths, sitting as artists' models etc. Similar exhibitions took place at [[Rhyl]] in the men's lavatory, but, owing to public denunciation, they have been stopped."