Vitascope_Hall_Daily_Picayune_NOLA_31_July_1896.png

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1896 advertisement for "Vitascope Hall" on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Ad notes the "Vitascope" (early movie projector) is at 623 Canal Street, not earlier location at West End (amusement park) and an "entirely new series of pictures" will be shown. "Vitascope Hall" has since been called the world's first movie theater, as location in business only showing motion pictures.

Date

31 July 1896

Source

Advertisement in "The Daily Picayune" newspaper, New Orleans, July 31, 1896. Via Times-Picayune website [1] ; cropped and converted from jpg to png before uploading to Wikimedia Commons

Author

No authorship credited, presumably copywriter for Vitascope Hall (Wainwright & Roch, owners & managers) &/or ad writer for the Daily Picayune.

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31 July 1896 ^Gregorian