This article delineates the history of cinema in the United States See more

The first permanent motion picture theater in the state of California was Tally's Electric Theater, completed in 1902 in Los Angeles. … See more

Movie theaters are associated with dating, popcorn and expensive treats.
Intimacy
Sometimes couples go to a movie theater for the additional reason that it provides the possibility of intimacy, where the dark provides some … See more

In 1893, Eadweard Muybridge projected hand-painted animated images at his Zoopraxigraphical Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
In June 1894, in Portland, Oregon, Charles Francis Jenkins used his Phantoscope to … See more

In the next ten years, as movie revenues exploded, independent promoters and movie studios (who owned their own proprietary chains until an antitrust ruling in 1948) raced to build the most lavish, elaborate, attractive theaters.
These forms … See more