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. Tally's theater was in a storefront in a larger building. The Great Train Robbery (1903), which was 12 minutes in length, would also … See more

In 1893, Eadweard Muybridge projected hand-painted animated images at his Zoopraxigraphical Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition in … See more

In the next ten years, as movie revenues exploded, independent promoters and movie studios (who owned their own proprietary chains … 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