Edisonia Hall
Edisonia Hall was a generic name for exhibition halls that displayed the various inventions of
and other such devices.The Edisonia Hall opened by
Buffalo News
, and others) as Vitascope Theater, Vitascope Hall, and the Electrical Theater.
The majority of the first program of films were
Buffalo News published an article by Mark Sommer confirming the historical significance of this theater.[1]
References
Notes
- ^ Sommer, 2007
Sources
- Buffalo Express 1886-10-19.
- Ramsaye, Terry. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture (Abingdon, UK: Frank Cass, 2012) [original edition: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926]
- Sandhu, Ranjit. History of Buffalo Theaters; unpublished manuscript, collection Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Grosvenor Room.
- Sommer, Mark. "Another groundbreaker for Buffalo: The nation's first motion picture theater may have been in Ellicott Square" Buffalo [NY] News 2007-11-25.
- Sommer, Mark. "Scholars say movie theater debuted here" Buffalo [NY] News 2008-10-19.
External links
- Cinema Treasures Historic Listing
- "Mitchel and Moe Mark and Edisonia Hall in Buffalo" Buffalo Architecture and History website. Extensive references and photos.