Bioscope show

After the Music Hall Strike of 1907 in London, bioscope operators set up a trade union to represent them.

In South Africa "Bioscope" or in Afrikaans "bioskoop" is an archaic word for the cinema and some people (especially older generations) still use it regularly.

Bioscopes and biocafes which served food and drink as you watched the film, dating back to the 1940s and 1950s closed in the 1970s, mostly due to the arrival of television in South Africa in 1976 which caused cinema attendances to severely drop.

[3] In modern-day Dutch, "bioscoop" is a widespread term, and the equivalent of the English "movie theater" or "cinema".

In modern-day Indonesian Language, "bioskop" is a modern term for movie theater adopted from the Dutch during the colonial era.