Edisonia Hall

Edisonia Hall

Edisonia Hall was a generic name for exhibition halls that displayed the various inventions of Thomas Alva Edison's company. These included the phonograph, the Vitascope, the Kinetoscope and other such devices.

The Edisonia Hall opened by Mitchell Mark and Moe Mark in Buffalo, New York in Ellicott Square Building on October 19, 1896 has the distinction of hosting Vitascope Theater (also spelled Vitascope Theatre) which is the first known dedicated, purpose-built motion picture theater in the world. The theater is referred to in newspapers of the day (Buffalo Express, Buffalo News and others) as Vitascope Theater, Vitascope Hall, and the Electrical Theater.

The majority of the first program of films were Lumiere Films obtained through Pathe Freres.

In its first year of existence, more than 200,000 people visited to view motion pictures projected on a screen.

On November 25, 2007, the Buffalo News published an article by Mark Sommer confirming the historical significance of this unique theater.

References

*Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights (New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, [1925] 1986)
*Buffalo Express, October 19, 1886
*Collection: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library: Grosvenor Room: Ranjit Sandhu, History of Buffalo Theaters, manuscript
*Collection: Buffalo and Eric County Historical Society

External links

* [http://www.buffalofilmfestival.com/edisoniahallbuffalo.html The Historic Search for the Vitascope Theater]
* [http://cinematreasures.org/theater/20853/ Cinema Treasures Historic Listing ]
* [http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/h/mark/index.html History of Mitchell Mark, Edisonia Hall, Vitascope Theater with extensive references and photos ]

Gallery


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mitchell Mark — aka Mitchell H. Mark (born as Mitchel Henry Mark aka Mitchel H. Mark) (1868 1918) was a pioneer of motion picture exhibition in the United States. Biography Michell Henry Mark and his brother Moe Mark founded the Vitascope Theater (a special… …   Wikipedia

  • Movie theater — A cinema in Australia Movies in the park: People watc …   Wikipedia

  • Adolph Zukor — Infobox actor name = Adolph Zukor image caption = Adolph Zukor, 2nd from left birthdate = birth date|1873|1|7 location = Ricse, Hungary deathdate = death date and age|1976|6|10|1873|1|7 deathplace = Los Angeles, California, United States… …   Wikipedia

  • Ellicott Square Building — The Ellicott Square Building is an office complex in Buffalo, New York, USA. It was designed by Charles Atwood of D. H. Burnham Company, and completed in May, 1896. At the time of its completion, it was the largest office building in the United… …   Wikipedia

  • Category:Cinemas and movie theaters in New York — Pages in category Cinemas and movie theaters in New York The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). 4 44th Street TheatreA Angelika Film Center Avalon Theater (Brooklyn)B… …   Wikipedia

  • The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex — is a short story about Sherlock Holmes written by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. It was originally published in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures , a 1997 anthology edited by Mike Ashley for Robinson Publishing and Carroll and Graf… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”