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Edisonia Hall was a
generic name for
exhibition halls that displa**** the
various inventions of
Thomas Alva Edison's company.
These included the phonograph...
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theaters were
started by Mitc**** Mark in Buffalo, New York, and
hosted Edisonia Hall. Mark
needed investors to
expand his
chain of theaters.
Zukor gave...
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Hough had also made
cylinder records,
initially using a
separate company,
Edisonia. When
Edison set up his own
European operation in 1904, the
import franchise...
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patent disputes with
other would-be
phonograph manufacturers,
including the
Edisonia company run by
James E. Hough, a
former sewing-machine
salesman from Manchester...
- Mark
added what they
called Edison's
Vitascope Theater (entered
through Edisonia Hall),
which they
opened to the
general public on
October 19, 1896 in collaboration...
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September 28 – The Pathé Frères film
company is founded.
October 19 – "
Edisonia Hall" in Buffalo, New York, the
first building constructed specifically...
- it was
responsible for the
discovery of the
Vitascope Theater, part of
Edisonia Hall, the
first purpose-built
movie theater in the
world which opened in...
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Later that year on
October 19, the
Edisonia Hall
opened in Buffalo, New York in the
Ellicott Square Building. The
Edisonia was the
first known dedicated,...
- (1872–1932),
Mitchel founded the
Vitascope Theater (a
special attraction of his
Edisonia Hall in the
Ellicott Square Building), one of the
first permanent, purpose-built...
- Andrews, W. S. (1904). "Information
Relating to the Old
Edison Companies". "
Edisonia": A
Brief History of the
Early Edison Electric Lighting System. New York:...
