Vitascope Hall was at 623 Canal St. in New Orleans. Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios New Orleans made history 129 years ago this month when two businessmen opened the country's first indoor seated ...

The entrance board at Vitascope Hall at the Hyatt Regency Hotel welcomes conference attendees at 601 Loyola Ave. in New Orleans Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (Dinah Rogers / Nola.com | The Times-Picayune ) ...

There’s a moment almost halfway into the process of building the Rokr Vitascope where builders may well think, There’s no way this thing is going to work. The way the laser-cut wooden pieces come ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 26, 1896, the first indoor, fixed-seating movie theater in America, Vitascope Hall, opened in New Orleans and screened the ...

Did you know New Orleans was home to the world’s first indoor movie theater? Vitascope Hall, located in the 600 block of Canal Street, opened 125 years ago this week. Motion pictures were still a ...

For almost as long as film has existed, New Orleans has been a movie town. Filmmakers love to shoot here, stars love to bask in the city’s mystique and residents love to see their beloved Big Easy ...

Whether to escape the heat or something else, New Orleanians have long flocked to movie theaters. The first films were shown at West End amusement park in 1896 as an exhibition. Soon after, William T.

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