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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 theWestern New YorkRegion: 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
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!
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 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! Make Buffalo's Broadway bigger and better than Broadway in NYC!
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October 19, 2007 Common Council Passes Resolution on First World Audiovisual Heritage Day! Sponsored by Councilman Franczyk and Councilman Golombek on behalf of The Buffalo International Film Festival. Commemorates VitaScope Hall and Buffalo's Movie Theaters!
