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15 unusual facts about movie theater


Agents and Patients

Blore-Smith falls in love with Maltravers’ wife, Sarah (a motoring enthusiast), becomes entangled with Mrs Mendoza (Mendie), whose flower shop, la cattleya, evokes Proust, and eventually travels with Maltravers and Chipchase to Berlin, where he observes first-hand the workings of the cinema.

Bełchatów

One municipal division of Bełchatów comprises numerous housing estates including the Budowlanych housing estate located in the central part of the town (close to the "Kultura" cinema, the Municipal Cultural Center, the Town Hall and the church).

Dora, Lebanon

The center also hosts Cinema City, a nine-screen multiplex of 1,789 seats arranged around a central sky-lit atrium.

Gulargambone

These include the improvement of the local hospital, creating a multi-purpose health centre, the opening of a new cinema and the transformation of the old cinema, Simmo's Bazaar, into 2828, the community centre, featuring a cafe and a gift shop.

Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes recorded "Crossfire" in a vacant cinema to provide echo.

Kakkodi

The Panchayath had two Cinema theatres named Priya & Jayasree, of which Priya had been converted to an Auditorium.

Kennedy Compound

The basement contains a motion-picture theater and a hall covered with dolls from all around the world.

Laura Cayouette

She worked at Universal City Walk Hollywood cinemas in the 1990s before becoming an actress.

Mårten Palme

The evening of Olof Palmes assassination, Mårten Palme and his girlfriend had joined his parents and had been at cinema.

Oliphant Chuckerbutty

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) (A.K.A. Wilson Oliphant) was an English composer and an organist of Anglo-Indian descent who played in both cinemas and churches.

Ouenza

-- this translation doesn't really capture what une salle des fêtes is, please change it if you can do better --> with a 400-seat cinema and air conditioning.

South Moor

There is an infant school and junior school known as "Greenland school" in the middle of the village and at one time there were two cinemas ( well used), the Arcadia and the Tivoli.

Tapiola

Remnants of this central role include Tapiola's cinema, Kino Tapiola, by the Mäntyviita street, and office apartments.

The Dealians

On 20 April 1971, South African radio personality and singer, Peter Lotis, presented the group with their gold disc for their hit single, "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow", on stage at the Colosseum cinema.

The Passage

To draw even more consumers to the store, the Soleille, one of the largest cinemas in the Russian capital, was opened in the complex in 1908.


ABC Cinema, Clifton

It was built in 1920–1921 as a cinema, called the Whiteladies Picture House, by James Henry LaTrobe and Thomas Henry Weston and opened by the Duchess of Beaufort on 29 Nov 1921.

Charles Skouras

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Kiel Opera House.

Chelsea Classic Cinema

The Chelsea Classic Cinema was a cinema originally opened in 1913 as the Chelsea Picture Playhouse, in the King's Road, Chelsea.

Downtown Calgary

It contains the pedestrian mall of Stephen Avenue, lined with restaurants and shops, enclosed shopping centres (including The Core, Scotia Centre, Bankers Hall and The Bay), as well as two art house movie theaters (the Globe Landmark Cinema and the Uptown) and recreation areas such as the Devonian Gardens.

Goofy Gymnastics

The cartoon is also shown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) during the scene where Roger and Eddie hide in a cinema.

Grand Central Mall

It features more than ninety tenants, including a food court, a movie theater and five anchor stores: Belk, Elder-Beerman, JCPenney, Sears and Dunham's Sports which opened in November 2009.

Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro

In Guadalupe, there are many retail stores, banks, shopping mall, municipal day care, courses, laboratories, movie theater, social clubs, health clubs, factories, the Terra cultural center, restaurants, hypermarket, pharmacies, clinics, college, the Augusto Amaral Peixoto clinic and many city-owned and private schools.

Illustrated song

Live performers (usually both a pianist and a vocalist) and music recordings were both used by different venues (vaudeville houses first and later in nickelodeons) to accompany still images projected from glass slides.

L'Idéal Cinéma – Jacques Tati

L'Idéal Cinéma – Jacques Tati is a movie theater in Aniche, France, and is claimed to be the oldest active public movie theater in the world.

Léo-Ernest Ouimet

During the 1904 federal election he used his kinetoscope to project election results on to the front wall of the newspaper La Patrie and in 1906 turned an abandoned cabaret house into a nickelodeon of 500 seats.

Mall at Stonecrest

Also attached to the mall is an AMC Theatres movie theater located in the outdoor plaza near the pavilion food court.

Meadowlands, Minnesota

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership (which also carried New Holland farm machinery), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution.

PAF Cinema

PAF Cinema (also known as PAF Auditorium) is a cinema and movie theater based in Cantt., Lahore, Pakistan.

PG Tips

It was shown in cinemas from 21 March 2008 until 10 April, before showings of family films such as The Spiderwick Chronicles and Horton Hears a Who.

Phantom of the Megaplex

With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, the film concerns strange happenings at a monstrous megaplex on the night of a major movie premiere gala, Midnight Mayhem.

Phoenicia Railroad Station

In 1906 it was used as a location by Biograph for Holdup of the Rocky Mountain Express, an early nickelodeon film shot on paper, since transferred to film by the Library of Congress.

PVR Cinemas

The Company, which began as a joint venture agreement between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in 1995 with 60:40 ratio, began its commercial operations in June 1997 with the launch of PVR Anupam in Saket, India's first multiplex.

Rendolepsis

The film premiered on September 19 or September 20, 2003, at the Kinosch cinema in Esch-sur-Alzette.

San Diego Symphony

The symphony performs subscription series concert at Copley Symphony Hall, which was built in 1929 as a French Rococo style luxury movie theater, the Fox Theater.

Skouras Brothers Enterprises

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon (movie theater) at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Peabody Opera House.

Starts Friday

Initially written in 2000 for HBO's first season of Project Greenlight, Starts Friday is the brainchild of a former movie theater projectionist and film school graduate who assembled a $500 shooting budget, some unknown actors from Milwaukee, a makeshift crew, and an interesting assortment of East Side Milwaukee locations for this coming-of-age, stoner comedy.

The Commons at Calabasas

The main entertainment venue is a 6-screen Edwards Cinema movie theater complex owned by Regal Cinemas.

The Evidence of the Film

The only known copy of this film was rediscovered in 1999 on the floor of the projection booth in a Superior, Montana movie theater.

UC Theater

The UC Theatre was a movie theater on University Avenue near Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California, known for having a revival house presentation of films, from the 1970s until its closing.

William Harold Lee

William Harold Lee (December 9, 1884 – February 3, 1971) was an American 20th century movie theater designer and later the chief architect for Eastern College.

Woodland Mall

A 14-screen movie theater (then owned by Cinemark) and a Red Robin and On the Border restaurant were added to the southeastern portion of the mall in 2006, the same year in which Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust acquired the mall from Taubman.

Yahoo! Movies

Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information.