Trinidad’s first cinema

It was at the Arima Savannah (now the Arima Velodrome) in 1906, that an open-air showing of The Great Train Robbery took place, along with one of the earliest movies ever made, The Passion Play of Oberammergau, which was produced in 1898. Other pioneering screenings took place in San Fernando, where the lodge known as the Albany Hall became a Friday and Saturday night cinema. A local entrepreneur laid out a cloth screen surface and projected moving images which were an instant hit at an admission fee of two shillings.