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    In what city was the first U.S. movie theater built?

    Question #1430. Asked by Olive. (Apr 18 00 4:03 PM)


    tailgunner

    		The first movie theater was in West Orange, New Jersey.

    Apr 18 00, 7:31 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Noting that the first public exhibition of projected motion pictures in the United States was at Koster & Bials Music Hall on 34th Street in New York City on April 23, 1896, the first "theater" in the US dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures was Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana June 26, 1896.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater#History

    Jan 26 08, 10:12 AM
    McGruff

    		West Orange, New Jersey was home to the first movie studio in the US, rather than the first movie theater.

    The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio."

    In 1893, the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the Kinetographic Theater, was built on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. In early May of 1893 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Edison conducted the world's first public demonstration of films shot using the Kinetograph in the Black Maria, with a Kinetoscope viewer. The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Black_Maria

    Jan 26 08, 10:40 AM

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