Nickelodeon (movie theater)
Type of early movie theater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Nickelodeon theatre" redirects here. For the Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina, see Columbia Film Society.
Not to be confused with the television channel Nickelodeon or its film division Nickelodeon Movies.
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the United States and Canada. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission (a "nickel", hence the name)[1] and flourished from about 1905 to 1915.
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