In Photos: Remembering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters

The Patterson is now the home of Creative Alliance, a center for arts. Its blinking blade sign is a replica of the original Flickering Treasures is open from 17 November to 14 October 2019 at the National Building Museum, Baltimore

Photograph: Amy Davis. Used with permission

The ‘Wizard Edison’s’ Vitascope projector arrived at Electric Park, a suburban amusement park, in June 1896, two months after motion pictures made their national debut in New York

Photograph: Courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland’s State Library Resource Center