Down with the Nickelodeon. Editorial decrying motion picture shows.

Movie news from New York Dramatic Mirror: Theatres losing business, more.

Montreal's Famous Ouimetoscope, movie amphitheatre

Link to 2006 Montreal Gazette article upon that theatre's centenary.

Movie documentaries in 1910, famous Johnson Jeffries fight

Women in the Silent Film Industry

Film Censorship Then and Now   

Early Photography; 1870-1913 on this website plus articles from Technical World Magazine

Gone with the Windows… Globe and Mail essay about the ephemeral nature of images in the  Digital Age

1910 Movie Plots from New York Dramatic Mirror

D.W. Griffith and Richmond Quebec Native Mack Sennett

"Those Awful Hats" 1908 motion picture public service announcement: Richmond Connection

Movie Clips, Musketeers of Pig Alley, Corner in Wheat, The New York Hat

The Menace of the Motion Picture

Why Go to the Movies, very interesting 1938 promotional piece for the Industry, that alludes to the common roots of the film and car industries.

Edison and Film

PLEASING THE CANADIANS: A National Flavour for Early Cinema, 1896-1914 OUTSIDE LINK (lots of ads) by Peter Steven, Canadian Journal of Film Studies article now posted on findarticles.com
<<During Toronto's nickelodeon period, roughly 1906 to 1913, city directories, provincial licence records, and annual police reports indicate that as many as eighty to one hundred storefronts and purpose-built theatres were showing movies continuously. According to the Toronto Star, by 22 May 1909 daily attendence had reached fifteen thousand. >>

The above article is a slog but contains a great deal  of info re era cinema, Canadian (Toronto) perspective.

Home Entertainment 1910. Edison wants a phonograph machine in every home. Moms aren't so sure.

The Cinematograph (description from Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911)

More era movies. Outside link to Library of Congress's page of Vaudeville and Film in the era. Animal acts, burlesque, comedy routines and dramatic clips available with info!