The Macy’s department store in Manhattan stretches along the north side of 34th Street, all the way from Sixth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. About halfway along this gigantic façade, behind the black-clad perfume counter salespeople on their smoking break, there’s a small plaque, which reads:
Here the motion picture began.
On the night of April 23, 1896 on this site,
in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall
Thomas A. Edison
With the "Vitascope"
First projected a moving picture.
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