The Automatic Vaudeville Company was a short-lived American entertainment business founded in 1903 by Adolph Zukor, David Warfield and Marcus Loew, which owned a chain of penny arcades.
It was very successful, earning $20,000 in its first year and expanded to other outlets including in Cincinnati.
However the owners rapidly had a falling out, and dissolved the company in 1904 dividing up the assets.
Both elements of the business provided the basis for the formation of major film studios, as the owners switched from amusement arcades to the rapidly growing movie market.
He eventually converted it into a nickelodeon and built up a chain into his own film empire.