Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd. was a pioneering cinema company with 16 cinemas in the Greater London area alone. The popularity of the company was so great that ‘electric theatre’ became fixed as a generic term for cinema in the early years of this art form.
Description: Black and white postcard of the Electric Theatre, Rendezvous Street, Folkestone
Date: 1912
Source: Folkestone & District Local History Society http://www.folkestonehistory.org/uploads/images/Gallery/folkestone/Rendezvous_Street.jpg
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