The Cook and Harris High Class Moving Picture Company: Itinerant Exhibitors and the Small-Town Movie Audience, 1900-1910

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The Cook and Harris High Class Moving Picture Company: Itinerant Exhibitors and the Small-Town Movie Audience, 1900-1910
Abstract
Americans Bert and Fannie Cook exemplified small-town entrepreneurs affected by emerging technology at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1903, they combined motion pictures with their own talents as entertainers to found the Cook and Harris High Class Moving Picture Company, which presented shows in rural communities of upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Quebec.
Publication
New York History
Volume
Vol. 75
Issue
no. 1
Pages
4-38
Date
1994
Language
en
Citation
Fuller, Kathryn Helgesen. “The Cook and Harris High Class Moving Picture Company: Itinerant Exhibitors and the Small-Town Movie Audience, 1900-1910.” New York History Vol. 75, no. 1 (1994): 4–38.
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