This year records a growth in the film screening business. In Bitola, Lazar Sorcev opened a cinema in his tavern, and on April 20th, the permanent “Belgrade” cinema, owned by Atanas Pema, located in the Bitola Town’s Theater started operating.
In Skopje, regular screenings were held in the “Zrinski Tavern”, and occasionally in the “Caffe Paris” (earlier “Angleter”) and “Palas”. In Stip, the hotel owner Sava Todorovic, opened a regular cinema in his “Grand Hotel”. Trifun Hadzijanev from Voden was a very interesting person of that time. Namely, he had spent some time in America, in Hollywood to be exact, where he had had a job as a worker on set decorations for numerous film projects, and also he had been a member of the film workers Union in Holywood. In 1918, he came back to Voden, “infected” by the movie magic and started to build a cinema. In 1920, the work of this cinema called “The Vermion” was started, and its repertoire was supplied with films purchased in Thessalonika.
