The Empire Theatre, also known as Wonderland and the Musee, was a theater located at the northeast corner of East Main Street and North Clinton Avenue in Rochester, New York from 1891 to 1904.
An actual motion picture projection, using the Eidoloscope system, was reported at Wonderland in early 1896.
[4] Unlike the Kinetoscope, which could be viewed only by one person at a time, the Eidoloscope projected moving images on a screen.
3,000 people were reported to have visited Wonderland March 1, 1897 to see a "Biographe" show (a 60mm unperforated film system developed in France) [5] The theater changed its name, and management, to the Empire Theatre August 1899, as a combination house; that is, a house for traveling road shows, burlesque, and vaudeville.
[12] The Empire Theater Building was finally torn down a year later, its time as a temporary retail facility done.