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Vitascope Theatre
Located in the Ellicott Square Building,
Buffalo NY
1896-1897
Photo - Vitascope Projector Smithsonian
Photo: Vitascope Projector (Eastman House, Rochester)
Illustration above - Robert W. Gutteridge, The Vitascope
1896 handbill - Vitascope Projector
1897 handbill - Vitascope Theatre
1897 newspaper article about Vitascope Theatre
Mitchel and Moe Mark and Edisonia Hall in Buffalo Entrance to the Vitascope Theatre was through Edisonia Hall
Vitascope Hall (Cinema Treasures)
Bill Zimmerman, On This Day, October 19, 1886: Buffalo Premieres World's First Movie Theater Buffalo Rising article
Greater Niagara is crazy about the movies: Our off the wall history Cultural Niagara websiteContributions to the Cinematic Image: Kinetoscope, Vitascope, Kinetophone, Cinématographe Includes digitized movies
Cinematic Storytelling Kodak
The Library of Congress American Memory Some early movies and stills online. Examples: "Pan-American ." Type in the name of the movie.
Movies shown at the Vitascope Theater:
- New York, Broadway at Union Square (1896) Undoubtedly one of the films shown at the Vitascope Theatre
- Watermelon Contest 1896 This is probably one of the films shown in 1896 on opening day of the Vitascope Theater.
- Tsar Nicholas II Coronation