16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

Tally’s Electric Theatre in Los Angeles proved incredibly popular with the public, and sparked a revolution in cinema history.

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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by surprise.