Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences

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Beyond the Movie Theater excavates the history of non—theatrical cinema before 1920, exploring where and how moving pictures of the 1910s were used in ways distinct from and often alternative to typical theatrical cinema. Unlike commercial cinema, non—theatrical cinema was multi—purpose in its uses and multi—sited in where it...