Early cinemaSourced
A city's first public cinema.
Gone within a month.
In 1904, a cinema opened behind an antique shop in Tehran. It showed comedies and newsreels, but a cleric banned it within a month.
A new kind of entertainment
barely had time to begin.
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Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi · Wikimedia contributors
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