Editing Movie theater (section)

===Earliest motion picture screening venues===
The earliest public film screenings took place in existing (vaudeville) theatres and other venues that could be darkened and comfortably house an audience.
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1988-035-15, Berlin, Wintergarten.jpg|thumb|The [[Berlin Wintergarten theatre]] was the site of the [[Max Skladanowsky|Skladanowsky brothers]]'s first film presentation from 1 to 31 November 1895]]
[[Charles-Émile Reynaud|Émile Reynaud]] screened his ''Pantomimes Lumineuses'' animated movies from 28 October 1892 to March 1900 at the [[Musée Grévin]] in Paris, with his [[Théâtre Optique]] system. He gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors, with programs including ''[[Pauvre Pierrot]]'' and ''[[Autour d'une cabine]]''.<ref name=emilereynaud.fr>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emilereynaud.fr/index.php/post/Le-Theatre-optique|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081111172705/http://www.emilereynaud.fr/index.php/post/Le-Theatre-optique|archive-date=11 November 2008|title=Le Théâtre optique}}</ref><ref name="myrent1989">{{Cite journal |jstor = 3814977|last1 = Myrent|first1 = Glenn|title = Emile Reynaud: First Motion Picture Cartoonist|journal = Film History|year = 1989|volume = 3|issue = 3|pages = 191–202}}</ref>

[[Thomas Edison]] initially believed film screening would not be as viable commercially as presenting films in peep boxes, hence the film apparatus that his company would first exploit became the [[kinetoscope]]. A few public demonstrations occurred since 9 May 1893, before a first public Kinetoscope parlor was opened on 14 April 1894, by the Holland Bros. in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street. This can be regarded as the first commercial motion picture house. The venue had ten machines, set up in parallel rows of five, each showing a different movie. For 25 cents a viewer could see all the films in either row; half a dollar gave access to the entire bill.<ref>The machines were modified so that they did not operate by nickel slot. According to Hendricks (1966), in each row "attendants switched the instruments on and off for customers who had paid their twenty-five cents" (p. 13). For more on the Hollands, see Peter Morris, ''Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895–1939'' (Montreal and Kingston, Canada; London; and Buffalo, New York: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978), pp. 6–7. Morris states that Edison wholesaled the Kinetoscope at $200 per machine; in fact, as described below, $250 seems to have been the most common figure at first.</ref>

The [[Eidoloscope]], devised by [[Eugene Augustin Lauste]] for the [[Woodville Latham|Latham]] family, was demonstrated for members of the press on 21 April 1895 and opened to the paying public on 20 May, in a lower Broadway store with films of the Griffo-Barnett prize boxing fight, taken from [[Madison Square Garden]]'s roof on 4 May.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Streible|first1=Dan|title=Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520940581|pages=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bpc1fk5T5dYC&pg=PA46|access-date=16 May 2016|date=2008-04-11|archive-date=3 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703105122/https://books.google.com/books?id=Bpc1fk5T5dYC&pg=PA46|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Max Skladanowsky]] and his brother Emil demonstrated their motion pictures with the [[Bioscop]] in July 1895 at the Gasthaus Sello in Pankow (Berlin). This venue was later, at least since 1918, exploited as the full-time movie theatre Pankower Lichtspiele and between 1925 and 1994 as Tivoli.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allekinos.com/BERLIN%20Tivoli.htm|title=BERLIN Tivoli|website=www.allekinos.com|access-date=2020-03-22|archive-date=9 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109203831/http://www.allekinos.com/BERLIN%20Tivoli.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The first certain commercial screenings by the Skladanowsky brothers took place at the Wintergarten in Berlin from 1 to 31 November 1895.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.victorian-cinema.net/skladanowsky|title=Who's Who of Victorian Cinema|website=www.victorian-cinema.net|access-date=2020-03-22|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003070812/https://www.victorian-cinema.net/skladanowsky|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first commercial, public screening of films made with [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Louis and Auguste Lumière]]'s [[Cinématographe]] took place in the basement of [[Salon Indien du Grand Café]] in Paris on 28 December 1895.