24-year-old bookkeeper Gustaf Bjorkman and 49-year-old workshop proprietor Nils Hansson Nylander established the Kristianstad Biograf-Teatern (Kristianstad Cinema Trading Partnership) on 5^th September 1905. The theatre they established in Tivoli Street, Kristianstad was just 10 metres long with room for 97 seats and a piano positioned to the left of the screen. The business grew rapidly, and was renamed Svenska Biografteatern upon becoming a limited company in February 1907.

The International Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary. Contributors: Anthony Slide - author. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1989. Page Number: 337.