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Within a decade of Edison's 1903 eight-minute movie, "The Great Train Robbery," silent motion pictures were playing in almost every Arkansas town. In larger cities, opera houses were quickly converted to movie theaters and Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Charlie Chaplin and Lillian Gish became household names.

Smaller communities were thrilled when "tent movies" stopped and ran one-reelers for a few days. Operating on a circuit schedule, "traveling picture shows" were shown after dark, inside a tent that might seat up to 100 people. A hand-cranked projector could churn out an entire movie in about 15 minutes, so it was often repeated to same audience for admission price of ten cents.

If movies killed vaudeville, it was a slow death in Arkansas. Live stage shows often shared billing with silent movies throughout Roaring '20s and well into 1930s. In fact, first silent movies were played in theaters as "fillers" between live acts. As films improved and grew in length and quality, they received top billing and live stage acts became sideshow entertainment.

Movies Take Over House

The Landers Theater in Batesville is a prime example of how movie industry started in Arkansas. Built about 1906 on upper Main Street, three-story, stone-and-brick building was designed with a stage for traveling thespians. Originally named Gem Opera House, by 1923 it was a full-fledged movie theater, with stage acts appearing only several times each year. Humorist-actor Will Rogers and several other cowboy actors made personal appearances at Landers, along with scheduled beauty pageants and benefit shows. The first "talking picture" to appear in region premiered at Landers in April of 1931.