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A movie theater , also known as cinema or pictures, is a
venue, usually a building, for viewing movies. Most cinemas are
commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend
by purchasing a ticket. The film is projected with a movie projector
onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Some
movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing
the need to create and transport a physical film print. |
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The first theater in the US dedicated exclusively
to showing motion pictures was Vitascope Hall, established on Canal
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1896. The first permanent structure
designed for screening of movies was Tally's Electric Theater, completed
in 1902 in Los Angeles, California. The 1913 opening of the Regent
Theater in New York City signalled a new respectability for the
medium, and the start of the two-decade heyday of American cinema
design. |
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In the next ten years, as movie revenues exploded,
independent promoters and movie studios raced to build the most
lavish, elaborate, attractive theatres. These forms morphed into
a unique architectural genre—the movie palace—a unique
and extreme architectural genre, which came to an end with the deepening
of the Great Depression. The movie chains were also among the first
industries to install air conditioning systems, which gave the theatres
an additional lure of comfort in the summer period. |
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