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