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The BUFFALO FILM FESTIVAL
presented by Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc. a 501c3 not-for-profit charity

   
Saturday, May 10, 2008
1 - 5 PM EDT
Free Admission
Refreshments Available!
Family Entertainment
Historic Riviera Theatre
The Historic Riviera Theatre
Presented by
THE BUFFALO FILM SOCIETY
in cooperation with
The Historic Riviera Theatre
69 Webster Street
North Tonawanda, NY 14120

(716)692-2413


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Buffalo International Film Festival
2008
Incorporated January 21, 2005 as a 501c3 not for profit charity

The City of Buffalo, New York
and the Western New York Region:
Niagara, Orleans, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming,
Chatauqua, Cataraugus, Allegany and other counties
United States of America


Dates. Schedule and Activities to be announced! 


Look for Special Events throughout 2008
A Celebration of Artistic and Cultural Diversity


The Riviera Theatre
The Buffalo International Film Festival
and
The Buffalo Film Society


present

The
Harold Lloyd
 Comedy
Film Festival

Friday April 18, 2008 
through
Sunday
April 20, 2008

more
Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last"
Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last"
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Edisonia Hall was the entrance to the Vitascope Theater  1896
Edisonia Hall was the entrance to the Vitascope Theater 1896
Buffalo, New York :

Birthplace of the Movie Theater

The visionary Buffalo showman, Mitchell Mark, created the future of the modern movie theater.

Vitascope Hall Opened October 19, 1896

Press Release on 2007 Celebration of 111th Anniversary
Western New York: An Explorer's Guide by Buffalo's own Christine A. Smyczynski
Western New York: An Explorer's Guide by Buffalo's own Christine A. Smyczynski
The First Ever Buffalo Motion Picture History Tour
Saturday, September 29, 2007
HUGE SUCCESS!

SEE! The Site of the World's First Movie Theater!
SEE! 1909 Movie Theater!
SEE! 1910 Movie Theater!     SEE! Where Mary Talbert went to the movies!
SEE! 1914 Movie Theater!
SEE! Where Paramount, Pathe, 20th Century-Fox, VitaScope, Warner Brothers were headquartered!
Robert Redford's Locations for The Natural
Where Goldie Hawn filmed Best Friends
And MORE! MORE! MORE!

DETAILS here.......

One of the World's FIRST MOVIE THEATERS
Edison's VItascope Theater
opened in
Buffalo, New York
October 19, 1896

...in the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, they added what they called Edison’s Vitascope Theater, which they opened to the general public on Monday, 19 October 1896, in collaboration with Rudolph Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories. Terry Ramsaye, in his book, A Million and One Nights [p 276], notes that this "was one of the earliest permanently located and exclusively motion-picture exhibitions."  (Ranjit Sandhu)

1896 Edison Movie Projector Advertisement
1896 Advertisement for Original Edison Moving Picture Projector (Click to view 1MB full size, detailed image).
Save The Sattler Theater built 1914 -- The theater is in danger of demolition. Save this beautiful, historic theater and revive the community!
Save The Sattler Theater built 1914 -- The theater is in danger of demolition. Save this beautiful, historic theater and revive the community! Make Buffalo's Broadway bigger and better than Broadway in NYC!
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    Saturday, October 27, 2007

    Celebration of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2007

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    111th Birthday of of Vitascope Theater: World's First Real Movie Theater

    Ellicott Square Building, Buffalo, NY


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    First World Audiovisual Heritage Day proclaimed in Buffalo, New York, United States by Mayor Byron Brown.

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