Thomas L. Tally

Thomas Lincoln Tally
Thomas L. Tally (1915)
Born	1861 Texas
Died	November 24, 1945 (aged 83–84) United States
Occupation	Film producer, businessman
Spouse(s)	Mary A.
Children	Seymour Tally (1889-1976)

Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861 – November 24, 1945) on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor. (Photographs exist but rights are not available).

With James Dixon Williams he founded First National Pictures. He was the first to show a color movie in Los Angeles in 1912, and he was the first to sign Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford to a movie contract.

The term Movie Palace is improperly applied in the quote. It is, apparently, used metaphorically and not keeping with a proper definition.