Winner of the 2010 AHA Roy Rosenzweig Prize, Going to the Show comprises a searchable database of more than 1200 movie exhibition sites in some 200 North Carolina communities; a collection of contemporaneous artifacts (newspaper ads and articles, photographs, postcards, city directories) illuminating the experience of early moviegoing in N.C.; more than 750 digitized Sanborn® Fire Insurance Map pages reflecting the central business districts of 47 towns and cities between 1896 and 1922; and an interpretive case study of early moviegoing and urban life in Wilmington. It is the first digital library to document and represent the experience of early moviegoing for an entire state, and the first to use film history and the history of moviegoing to illuminate the role of Jim Crow race policies in the urban South. Can be used for the classroom gathering materials or as sourcing for Black Studies or Film Majors.