Ohio Valley History… Moving pictures and ‘talkies’
The historic State Theater on Main Street in downtown Point Pleasant.
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The original variety show, vaudeville shows were made up of a dozen or more acts by singers, dancers, comedians, strongmen, acrobats, lecturers, minstrels, and more that traveled the country in companies like A.L Fields’ Minstrels and The Bostonians. In 1896, while G.W.M. Hooff was building his new opera house here in Point Pleasant, vaudeville was the height of American entertainment.
Yet, that same year, 1896, was the beginning of the end for vaudeville. On April 20th, Thomas Edison’s Vitascope premiered at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall in New York City. It was just a montage of short clips without any sound, each hardly any longer than today’s commercials, but this was the first display of moving pictures in the United States. Within a year, there were three major film companies cranking out new silent films: Edison, Biogr
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