Mitchel and Moe Mark/Vitascope Theatre:
Buffalo's Mark brothers opened the world's first movie
theater, Vitascope Theatre, in the Ellicott Square Building in 1896
Mitchel and Moe Mark and Early Movie History in Buffalo
- Table of Contents
Vitascope Theater
Photos of theaters:
North Park Theater
Olympic Movie Theatre- Demolished
Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda
Sattler Theatre
Shea's Buffalo
Lafayette Theater Demolished
Star Theatre Postcard Demolished
30 Buffalo Movie Theaters
Al Lapp collection
Ranjit Sandhu, Buffalo's Forgotten
Theaters Includes photos and history of Savoy,
Sattler, Abbott, Frontier, Mirror, Circle, Steve Brodie's Saloon
11 Buffalo Theaters
Includes Shea's Vaudeville, Shea's Buffalo, Olympic,
Granada, Genesee, Allendale, Rivoli, Teck, Paramount, Great Lakes
An Oral and Visual History of Buffalo Movie Theaters
Includes photos of Gayety, Genesee, Hippodrome, Lafayette, Shea's Theater, Shea's
Buffalo, Teck
Theater history, without photos:
Buffalo’s Film Row Excerpt from - 2013 Preservation Ready Survey of Buildings Downtown, Northland and Fougeron/Urban Survey Areas
Cinema History Around
the World: Buffalo CinemaTour website. Includes address, date erected,
date closed, alternate names, of all of Buffalo's theatres. Be sure to view
the continued list on a second page.
Rivest's
Ultimate List of Buffalo Movie Theatres 245 theatres listed
Carl Zoschke, Map
- 81 Buffalo, NY, Movie Theatres 1920s/50s
Edward Summer, Types of Early Movie Theaters
David Fisher, Motion
picture exhibition: a classification Vitascope Theater listed
Rick Cohen, Celebrating 75 Years of Drive-In
Movies Lists twenty drive-ins which once operated in Erie and Niagara
Counties
Movies:
Alphabetical List - Movies
Shot in and around Buffalo, NY 197 films. Buffalo International Film
Festival website
Alphabetical Lists - Titles
with locations including Buffalo: 202 matching titles, including TV.
Internet Movie Data Base website
Chronological List - Movies
Filmed in Buffalo, NY
The Western New
York Entertainment Hall of Fame Includes portraits by George Palmer of
Lucille Ball, Michael Bennett, Mark Russell, Buffalo Bob Smith, etc.
Forest Lawn Cemetery and Hollywood
Al Boasberg Buffalonian who was one of the great gag writers
H. Bruce "Lucky" Humberstone
Director born in Buffalo
Movie clips from movies with locations in Buffalo:
Roy C. Gunter Jr., Hollywood
Comes to American Optical Co. Story of Buffalo's American Optical Company's
role in the development of 70mm Todd-AO process
Thomas Hauerslev, 65mm
Todd-AO Concept Tests Includes a still from a movie filmed at Ellicott
Creek Park
Miscellaneous:
Buffalo
International Film Festival
First
Buffalo Motion Picture History Tour is Big Success!
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Day:
Special thanks to Edward Summer for his assistance
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