Motion Pictures and Cities and Suburbs

On April 23, 1896, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, Manhattan's leading vaudeville theater, Thomas Edison debuted his Vitascope before a paying audience in a public performance. The device, advertised as his “greatest marvel,” projected film images on a screen, providing ...

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