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Why were early movies often called Nickelodeon's

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The movies were made on a nickel compound film.
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Here is something I found: "Nickel" means the admission price was 5 cents.
"odeon" is greek for theater. Nickelodeons were usually converted storefronts. Hope this helped ☻
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