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For properly comprehending and organizing the cultural history of movie theatres of S. Korea, It is inevitable to examine theatres not only in the capital, Seoul, but also in each province where the local theatres have been. In the recent studies, there are some discussions about the local theatres but nothing in the province, Jeonllabukdo. But the point is that for representing an integrated cinema history of Korea, the history of local theatres in each province would be added. What analyzing the history of movie theaters is to experience “the history of space” the cinema is always representing, and, as the result, to search the roles and functionality of the movie theatre positioned in the space. This research mainly examines the history of movie theaters in Jellabuk-do from the years before liberation from Japan to 1970s, aiming at discovering and investigating the historical way of being of films in Jellabuk-do. Thus, the research is principally showing the index as a primary database, such as the opening/closed date, the size, the number of seats and addresses, of the theaters, quarried from the text references, such as the newspaper, magazines, yearbooks and publications. Such figures are not only the basic data for the cinema history of S. Korea, but also the basic materials for analyzing mass-culture and for recording modern history. This study based on the historical materials could be utilized as an intersection point for the study of local cinema and, especially, as the basic materials for studying the history of film culture in Jeollabukdo. However, this research seems to lack in terms of the profundity and to be insufficient in terms of variety of the sources, since this study is the first attempt to illustrate it: the relation or correlation between the film industry in the local and the management of the movie theater, for instance. It will be covered by the post investigation.