2-979-803 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Commission [sic] Street, Johannesburg', c1900. In May 1896, Carl Hertz bought a projector from England and screened the first movie seen in South Africa at the Empire Palace of Varieties on Commissioner Street. After a photograph by H.W. Nicholls. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]