Thomas Armat and Charles Jenkins, two men from the Washington DC area, develop America's first movie projector.  This machine will be very important in film history, as its the first projection machine that Thomas Edison would market, but it is the damaged relationship between the two men that makes this an intriguing story.  

William Laurie Dickson worked with Thomas Edison to build the kinetoscope.  Unfortunately resentment, as well as pressure from others to help build machines for them is putting him in a very difficult position.  What's he going to do?

Episode 14 looks at some of the stars of the first kinetoscope films.  These people were  primarily vaudeville stars, including those who had become friends of Edison developer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson.  These people include the bodybuilder Samson, Little Miss Sure Shot, Annie Oakie, and the Spanish dancer Carmencita.  

Two groups of men, one of them being Greek Americans, and the other being the investment group of Maguire and Baucus, both introduce the kinetoscope to Europe.  There, they will inspire Robert Paul and Birt Acres in London, the Lumiere brothers in France, and possibly Max Skladanowsky in Berlin.