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The Eden Musée, opened in Manhattan in 1884, was a grand entertainment palace that mixed waxworks, concerts, paintings, lantern shows, marionettes, and themed halls, with its basement Chamber of Horrors becoming especially famous. It also became a significant early venue for film in the United States. In 1896, Lumière films began a two-month run in its Winter Garden, and it became the first American venue to make motion pictures a regular part of its program. Its film work soon expanded into production, including The Passion Play of Oberammergau in 1898. The Eden Musée closed in 1915, but its legacy endured as a link between wax museum spectacle and early cinema.
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