“The first [movie] exhibitors, therefore, tended to travel, following a circuit of bookings in vaudeville theaters, lyceums, or on fairgrounds, and occasionally providing their own exhibition site with a dark canvas tent known as a ‘blacktop.’”
—Tom Gunning, D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film, (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1991), p. 59.
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