Moore’s Opera House was built by Jack Marks on land donated by the former mayor of Clarksburg, Frank Moore, and operated as a live theater venue. Sometime in the following years, the theater began presenting motion pictures.

The theater was retrofitted with Vitaphone sound film equipment at sometime before 1931. The film may have been operated by Claude Robinson beginning sometime in the 1930s. When Robinson’s Grand Theatre burned in 1939, it was announced that the Grand’s film programs would be presented at the Moore Opera House until rebuilding was completed.

In 1949, film theater entrepreneur Madge Douds (née Madge Stout) acquired a lease on the theater, and continuted to operate it as a film venue until its close in the late 1950s.

References: Cinema Treasures website : with additional information supplied by Savanna Violet.