Price of movies in the 1920s?

Question

Did they really differ in the US, Canada and other countries worldwide?
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Answer 1

It was a dime by the time the original King Kong came out in New York at the beginning of 1933. Maybe it was a nickel in the 20's, but I'd bet it was a dime then. [ I'll risk a nickel.]
Nickelodeon theaters were very popular in the 1910s.
[See excerpt from internet site below.] These were early movies which cost a 'nickel.'
Even when I went to the movies in the 1950s the cost was only a quarter.

[A pack of Wrigley's gum was a nickel for decades. They must have made a fortune in the early days when their costs would have been very low for each pack of gum produced.]

Nickelodeon - an early type of motion picture theater, so named for its five-cent admission price. ("Odeon" is derived from a Greek term for theater.) 1905 - the first theater opened in Pittsburgh where projected films were accompanied by piano. By 1910, thousands of nickelodeons had appeared nationwide, many of them little more than converted storefronts with wooden benches for seating. Nickelodeons often repeated the same films all day and evening, and were popular with working-class patrons who could not afford live theater, the leading entertainment of the day. The success of nickelodeons increased demand for more and better movies, leading in turn to the creation of new motion picture studios and helping establish film as a mass entertainment medium. Ironically, that rising popularity led to the end of nickelodeons, as they were replaced by larger, custom-built movie theaters.

Added Note - I looked through the net and found this 60 plus page essay on the development of cinema 1890 -1940. It more than you could ever want, but it does note prices in America. When feature films replaced Nickelodeons after 1917, the price was an average of 20 cents, but it varied a great deal. Nicer theaters in cities cost more than shabbier theaters in smaller towns. People I know who grew up in the 30s during the depression tell me that usually 5 cents was enough for a movie in a small town theater.

Answer 2

Did they differ in other countries world wide? Of course they did. If the movies were made in the same country they were shown in, they always cost less.
However, in the US and in Canada, the early theatres were known as 'nickleodians' because the admission fee was five cents.
By the 1930s the price had risen to a dime, but you got free dishes and other things when you went to the show - and most shows had a split bill, with some vaudeville acts, talent contests or other live performances between the shows.

Answer 3

A nickle or a dime.