Title supplied by cataloger. Thomas Lincoln Tally opened the Electric Theatre on Spring Street in Los Angeles in April of 1902, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California. Tally, along with James Dixon Williams, started First National Pictures. Tally was the first to show a color movie in Los Angeles in 1912, and he was the first to sign Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford to a movie contract. View of Thomas Lincoln Tally's phonograph parlor on Spring Street in Los Angeles, which had the Electric Theatre in the back. The parlor and theater were located on Spring Street, though the address is unknown. Photograph circa 1902.
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image
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1 negative : safety ; 25 x 20 cm. Photographic safety negatives
Motion picture theaters Motion picture industry Motion picture film Recording instruments Phonographs Audiences Women Men Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) Portrait photographs Group portraits
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