In 1909, with fall of the Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar heir of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and the success of the constitutionalists, Russi Khan lost his support. Consequently, his film theatre and photography studios were destroyed by the public. Soon after, other cinema theatres in Tehran closed down. Movie theatres sprang up again in 1912 with the help of Ardeshir Khan, an Armenian-persian. In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in capital.
The cinematographic camera was introduced to homeland in 1929, as yet another tool of modernization. After Mirza Ebrahim Khan, several others like Russi Khan, Ardeshir Khan, and Ali Vakili tried to establish new movie theaters in capital. Until the early 1930s, there were little more than 15 theatres in capital and 11 in other provinces. In 1925, Ovanes Ohanian, decided to establish the first film school in homeland. Within five years he managed to run the first session of the school under the name “Parvareshgahe Artistiye Cinema”.
