Abstract
cinema performance more than a month before New York City previewed motion at Bial's Music Hall on April 23, 1896. In early March, 1896, a German, Max Skladanowsky, had visited Oslo, then known as Kristiania, with a touring motionpicture enterprise. The following spring, the city had its first full-length cinema performance when two Frenchmen introduced the living pictures at Brfdrene Hals's concert hall. It was this second visit which inadvertently led to the founding of the Norwegian exhibition industry. When the Frenchmen's apparatus broke down, they enlisted the support of a Norwegian instrument maker, Olaf K. Bjercke, to help with repairs, and Bjercke became so entranced with the equipment that he purchased an old set from the Frenchmen and was soon touring Norway himself with a film show. By 1900, filmstrips were being used as introductory features on the regular Cirkus Variete vaudeville shows. Oslo's first permanent motion-picture house was opened in November, 1904, at Stortingsgaten 12, and bore the same name as its address. Early film performances lasted from 20 to 30 minutes, and had such intriguing titles as:
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