With the advent of projection in \(1895-1896\), motion picture became the ultimate form of mass consumption, the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as the earlier peepshow devices, such as the kinetoscope and the mutoscope, which was a similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards, instead of on strips of celluloiD. It suddenly became public an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores and even hundreds of other. At the same time, the image that the spectator looked at expanded from the minuscule peepshow dimensions of one or two inches (in height) to the life-size proportions of six or nine feet.

According to the passage, the image seen by viewers in the earlier peepshows, compared with the images projected on the screen, were relatively ____________