According to the dean of local movie critics, W. WARD MARSH, Cleveland’s first actual movie theater appeared two years later in 1903, when The Great Train Robbery began showing at the American Theater ...

In 1915 alone, the city boasted approximately 90 theaters — all but one exclusively screening films. A reader asked KCQ what the first movie shown in Kansas City was, and what some of the first ...

"Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theater." Yep! This is an important speech for movie lovers. You may ...

When movies were first made and shown in Kansas City, they were curious phenomena and not the cultural staples they would ...