Learning about Toronto's first film screening, Yonge/Adelaide Streets.
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7576
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Open
Date of Creation
28 August 2019
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L-R: Amanda LeClair, Emily Berg, Candice McCavitt
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Heritage Toronto
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Learning about Toronto's first film screening, Yonge/Adelaide Streets.
Description
On August 31, 1896, the first motion picture was shown in Toronto, in a basement area named "Wonderland" at Robinson's Musee - a mashup of curio shop, wax museum, and circus. The new technology used a "Vitascope", one of the first movie projectors, championed by Thomas Edison. The Musee was located at the current day southeast corner of Yonge/Adelaide Street East.