Today in 1896, the Vitascope—the first commercial projector mass-produced for the American market—was introduced to the public for the first time at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall in New York City.
In They Made America, Harold Evans describes the scene that day: “… an enraptured elite audience lapped up short chasers of vaudev…
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