MOTION PICTURES

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    motion pictprs

  • kintoscop

    edison invented the kintoscop
  • Cinèmatographe.

    The Lumière brothers Cinèmatographe.
  • Vitascope Hall

    williom "pop" transformed a vacent store into Vitascope Hall
  • permanent theater

    Thomas L. Tally's Electric Theatre is the first permanent movie theatre in the U.S.
  • Nickel Theaters

    The Keith organization begins converting vaudeville theatres into "nickel" motion picture houses. Their first picture house seats 1,000 people and clears $800 to $1,000 per week.