First Movie Theater
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<p><strong>APRIL 21: First Movie Theater </strong></p><p><em>Profile America </em>— Thursday, April 21st. For over a century and a quarter, going to the movies has been one of the American people’s great pleasures. The first time paying Americans gathered as an audience to watch a motion picture was this week in 1896, at the Koster and Bial’s Music Hall on West 34th Street in New York City. The movie was a plotless novelty at the end of a live vaudeville show, showcasing a new projector of Thomas Edison’s. Previously, people viewed short films individually by peering into a hand-cranked peepshow unit. Now, there are over 4,450 movie theaters affected by the pandemic. Previously, these theaters employed 149,000 people, and took in about $16 billion annually. You can find more facts about America’s people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at <a href="https://www.census.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.census.gov</a>.</p><h2>Sources:</h2><p>Joseph Nathan Kane, Kane’s Famous First Facts, Fifth Edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, NY 1997, #5511.</p><p><a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/14770" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Koster and Bials, accessed 8/31/2021</a></p><p><a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=512131&tid=CBP2019.CB1900CBP&hidePreview=false" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Theaters and employees, County Business Patterns, NAICS 512131</a></p><p><a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=512131&tid=ECNBASIC2017.EC1700BASIC&hidePreview=false" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revenue, Economic Census, NAICS 512131</a></p>
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