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The '''Belmont Theatre''' was a movie theater located at 115 East [[Belmont Street]], in the [[Long Hollow]] neighborhood. Opening circa 1916 in {{date needed}} during [[segregation]], the theater was owned by whites (including at one point [[Clinton Vucovich]]) but initially catered to an all-black audience. It was a part of the Southern Consolidated Circuit from 1916 until 1920, and then became an important house stop in the Managers' and Performers' Circuit in [[1922]].<ref name="directory"/> The theater "opened [its] doors to white patrons" on [[August 1]] of that year, but in a reversal of normal segregation conventions, they were required to sit in the balcony while black patrons occupied the first floor.<ref name="directory">''[http://books.google.com/books?id=pH2npoewU5cC The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960]''</ref>