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| When did the first movie theater open in the United States?
 Question: When did the first movie theater open in the United States?
 
 
 The first movie theater opened the same year a circuit court prevented inventor Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion pictures.
 
 The first movie theater was called Electric Theatre and was located in - you guessed it - Los Angeles, California and opened in 1902.
 
 
 
 
 
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