![]() However, the first "storefront theater" in the US dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures was Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana July 26, 1896-it was converted from a vacant store. With the Vitascope, Edison began public showings of his films at Koster and Bial's Music Hall on 34th Street in New York City on April 23, 1896. ![]() The Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison, who changed the name of the projector to Edison's Vitascope. Jenkins and his new partner Thomas Armat modified the Phantoscope for exhibitions in temporary theaters at the Cotton States Exposition in the fall of 1895. The film featured a vaudeville dancer performing a Butterfly Dance. Jenkins used his Phantoscope to project his film before an audience of family, friends and reporters. The earliest documented account of an exhibition of projected motion pictures in the United States was in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana by Charles Francis Jenkins. The theater's Baroque spire is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park, Chicago was a Movie palace for the Balaban and Katz theater chain. The history in the US File:Gateway Theatre (Chicago).jpg Screening room refers to a very small theater, often a private one, such as for the use of those involved in the production of motion pictures or in a large private residence. Specific to North America is the movies, while specific to the UK are the pictures, the flicks, and for the facility itself the flea pit (or fleapit). ![]() In the countries where those terms are used, the word "theatre" is usually reserved for live performance venues.Ĭolloquial expressions, mostly applied to motion pictures and motion picture theaters collectively, include the silver screen (formerly sometimes sheet) and the big screen (contrasted with the smaller screen of a television set). The latter terms, as well as their derivative adjectives "cinematic" and "kinematic", ultimately derive from Greek κινῆμα, κινῆματος (kinema, kinematos)-"movement", "motion". However, many US theaters opt to use the British spelling in their own names, a practice supported by the National Association of Theatre Owners, while apart from North America most English-speaking countries generally use the term cinema Template:IPAc-en, alternatively spelled and pronounced kinema Template:IPAc-en. ![]() In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK and elsewhere it is theatre. 7.1 Live broadcasting to movie theaters. ![]()
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