Dixie Theater
200 Block Texas Street,
Shreveport,
LA
71101
200 Block Texas Street,
Shreveport,
LA
71101
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The Cameraphone Company was the first U.S. circuit to attempt to market itself as a sound movie exhibitor. A franchisee launched on November 1, 1909 with a short-lived Cameraphone Theater playing the talking “Brady’s Thanksgiving” supported by a President Taft at Baseball Games short, and Pathe’s “Doomed.”
The Cameraphone was a dud in Shreveport and just months later, the venue became the Dixie Theatre. It was all over by early 1911 - just about a year after it had launched.