Movie theater Timeline of Events

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A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....

Timeline of Events

1895

12.28.1895

The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in ''Boulevard des Capucines'', marking the debut of the cinema.

1902

4.2.1902

"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

1907

11.28.1907

In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.

1910

9.22.1910

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.