GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -A conservatory of the Central Hotel in the Berlin Mitte district, it opened 1887, and its aspects were based on the model of the Wiener Theater in Austria.

Detailed explanation-2: -Within a month–and while filmmaking was still in its infancy–Rock and business partner Walter Wainwright decided to open a movie theater downtown, at 623 Canal Street. Their Vitascope Hall, as it was named, is widely recognized as the world’s first permanent, for-profit movie theater.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest cinema in Berlin (and all of Germany), incidentally, is the Moviemento, opened in 1907 as “Topps Kino”.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1905, John P. Harris and Harry Davis opened a five-cents-admission movie theater in a Pittsburgh storefront, naming it the Nickelodeon and setting the style for the first common type of movie theater. By 1908 there were thousands of storefront Nickelodeons, Gems and Bijous across North America.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first public Kinetoscope demonstration took place in 1893. By 1894 the Kinetoscope was a commercial success, with public parlours established around the world. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France.