What was the first movie in a theater?
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The Great Train Robbery (1903), which was 12 minutes in length, would also give the film industry a boost. In 1905, John P. Harris and Harry Davis opened a five-cents-admission movie theater in a Pittsburgh storefront, naming it the Nickelodeon and setting the style for the first common type of movie theater.