The _New York Herald_ reported on May 3, 1896, that the subjects would soon be lengthened from 50 feet to 150 feet and 500 feet. “Gone With the Wind,” the mammoth of 1941, was 20,000 feet long. New attractions promised in the first days were to include Niagara Falls, which Langenheim had photographed with marked success a half-century earlier; a steamer going down the Lachine Rapids, and an ocean liner leaving its dock. The _Herald_ said: “The result is intensely interesting and pleasing but Mr. Edison is not quite satisfied yet. He wants now to improve the phonograph so that it will record double the amount of sound it does at present, and he hopes then to combine this improved phonograph with the Vitascope so as to make it possible for an audience to witness a photographic reproduction of an opera or a play--to see the movements of the actors and hear their voices as plainly as though they were witnessing the original production itself.” The “world premiere” newspaper review concluded: “And when it is remembered what marvels Edison has produced, it would not seem at all improbable that he may yet add this one to his many others.” The talking picture, however, did not make its real debut for three decades. The _New York Tribune_ on Sunday, May 3, 1896, said: “Edison’s Vitascope has made a decided hit at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall. Tomorrow evening all the pictures will be in colors. The Vitascope, together with Albert Chevalier, is drawing large audiences.” Raff & Gammon now had something that could be sold easily; the Vitascope was everywhere well received. Eighty projectors of the Armat design were delivered by the Edison company from April to November of 1896. And Edison started renewed work on his own “Projecting Kinetoscope,” independently of Armat. An advertising brochure for the Vitascope told the story this way: Several years ago Mr. Edison conceived the idea of projecting moving figures and scenes upon a canvas or screen, before an audience. Owing to the pressure of his extensive business, he could not fully develop his inventive ideas at the time. However, he put his experts to work upon a machine which should reproduce moving pictures upon a small scale, and the Kinetoscope was the result.