ABSTRACT
1906 to 1914 was for film exhibitors, as it was for film dealers, a period of experiment from which crystallized the eventual structure of the trade. In 1906 the moving picture show was still seeking a home of its own, still appearing mainly in fairgrounds and music-halls and turning up in illustrated lectures to enliven or replace the still lantern picture. But during the next two or three years exhibitors tried many new, and often extraordinary, ways of reaching the public before they finally settled down in picture palaces.
