Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861 – November 24, 1945) on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor. (Photographs exist but rights are not available). With

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he founded

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. He was the first to show a color movie in Los Angeles in 1912, and he was the first to sign

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and Mary Pickford to a movie contract.

Lawsuits

Tally v. Ganahl, 151 California Supreme Court 418 (1907)

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tally, Thomas Lincoln 1861 births 1945 deaths American film producers