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Ladies and children are cordially invited to this theatre. No offensive pictures are ever shown here

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Photo shows song birds and roses. Positive paper print from lantern slide used in motion picture theaters as announcement. Each text superimposed on humorous photograph, and the whole shown in a fancy carved frame.

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Copyright June 7, 1912 by Scott and Van Altena.

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Movie posters and movie theaters.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

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01/01/1912
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What's in Movie Theaters Tonight?

Movie posters and theaters.

Go to Cinema!

Movie Entrances and Movie Posters of the Pre-War decades.
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