The first movie in New Orleans was shown on an outdoor screen on the lakefront June 28, 1896, by Allen B. Blakemore,
an electrical engineer for the New Orleans City and Lake Railroad. Blakemore reduced the five-hundred-volt current from the
trolley line for his wonderful vitascope machine by way of a water rheostat. Source: http://clarionherald.org/20000316/stall.htm
