Mitchell Mark
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Mitchell Mark was an important pioneer of motion picture exhibition. He arguably founded one of the very first dedicated movie theaters in the world in 1896 in Buffalo, New York.
With his brother Moe Mark, they founded The Automatic Vaudeville Company in 1906 in New York City. Among the partners they brought into the business were Adolph Zukor (founder of Paramount Pictures and Marcus Loew (founder of the Loew's Theater chain).
The Mark Brothers built and operated dozens of important theaters in the United States after their auspicious start in Buffalo, New York.
Mitchell Mark is credited with installing the first church organ to be used for the movies at Cleveland's Alhambra Theatre in 1907.[1]