"(although the Irish cinemas were also included within this figure). ODEON Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch. ODEON publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, ""Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation"", but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek. The name ""Nickelodeon"" was coined in 1888 and was widely used to describe small cinemas in the United States starting from 1905. However, the company is most associated with J. Arthur Rank, the owner for the longest period in"
"Nickelodeon (movie theater) The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915. ""Nickelodeon"" was concocted from ""nickel"", the name of the U.S. five-cent coin, and the ancient Greek word ""odeion"", a roofed-over theater, the latter indirectly by way of the ""Odéon"" in Paris, emblematic of a very large and luxurious theater, much as ""Ritz"" was of a grand hotel. For unknown reasons, in 1949 the lyricist of a popular song ""Music!"
"masses of people became introduced to this form of entertainment. In the countryside, clubs, community houses were converted to screening rooms, while in towns, and especially Budapest, hundreds of new movie theatres opened. Ticket price for premiere movies was 8 Ft, and 2 Ft for movies that played older films (in worker districts all tickets costed 2 Ft) - a cost that nearly every class could pay. With short animations and news reels playing before and after feature films, movie-going became a several-hour-long entertainment. Special theatres operated to only show children movies or news reels (a ticket was valid for"
"in formal attire. Anthony Cacchio Sr., a tile setter from Poughkeepsie who bore a strong resemblance to filmmaker Otto Preminger, received permission to rent the building from the village's mayor, who strongly desired a movie theater in Rosendale. Cacchio opened the former casino as a one-room, 300-seat movie theater on February 18, 1949. Critics of the venture, wary of out-of-towners, claimed it would not be profitable, and that the Theatre (which the Cacchios pronounced ""thee-ate-er"", with a long ""a"" sound) would be closed within six months. Tickets were sold for 50 cents apiece for adults and 25 cents for children,"
"Gymnasium student, and from that moment on, Chekhov became a great theater lover and spent there virtually all his savings. His favorite seat in the theater was at the back gallery for it was cheap (40 silver kopeeks), and because Gymnasium students needed a special authorisation to go to the theater. The permission was given not often and mostly for the weekends. Sometimes, Anton Chekhov and other fellow students disguised themselves and even wore some makeup, spectacles or a fake beard, trying to fool the regular school staff who checked for unauthorized presence of students. In 1901, the first movie"
"theatre in 1938, advertising it as devoted to ""the showing of unusual pictures."" The new cinema debuted on February 15, 1938 with the French film Beethoven's Great Love (titled ""The Life and Loves of Beethoven"" in the U.S.). Tickets cost 50 cents for evening shows, 40 cents for matinees, and 25 cents before 2pm. According to Cinema Treasures, the movie ""Marty"" premiered here, among others. They had what was also described as a ""first-run 'class' policy"" continuing through the 1960s. In the 1970s the Avon became a repertory house and was known as the Avon Repertory Cinema. In 1983, they"
"at that time as they were simple, short, and cost only five cents to attend. While the middle class regularly began to attend the Nickelodeons by the early 1910s the upperclass continued to attend stage theater performances such as the opera and big-time vaudeville. However, as more sophisticated, complex, and longer films featuring prominent stage actors were developed, the upperclass desires to attend the movies began to increase and a demand for higher class theaters began to develop. Nickelodeons could not meet this demand as the upperclass feared the moral repercussions of intermingling between women and children with immigrants. There"
"1897 introduction date a myth. American traveler and lecturer Burton Holmes was the first to film in Korea as part of his travelogue programs. In addition to displaying his films abroad, he showed them to the Korean royal family in 1899. An announcement in the contemporary newspaper, ""Hwangseong sinmun"" (""The Imperial""), names another early public screening on June 23, 1903. Advertised by the Dongdaemun Electric Company, the price for admission to the viewing of scenic photography was 10 ""jeon"" (coin). Korea's first movie theater, Dongdaemun Motion Picture Studio, was opened in 1903. The Dansung-sa Theater opened in Seoul in November"
"with the advent of the feature film, and as cities grew and industry consolidation led to larger, more comfortable, better-appointed movie theaters. Longer films caused ticket prices to double from five cents to ten cents. Although their heyday was relatively brief, nickelodeons played an important part in creating a specialized spectator, ""the moviegoer"", who could now integrate going to the movies into his or her life in a way that was impossible before. Miriam Hansen has noted that the term ""spectator"" had become common by 1910. The nickelodeon explosion also increased the demand for new films, as thousands of theaters"
"of the College of Fine Arts and began screening art house as well as international films. The Majestic, now known as the Athena, opened up in 1915 when the Bethel grocery store was evicted. The movie theater began showing movies that all the stars were in. The theater was such a low price, at 5 cents for a “four reeler movie”, that people would rather go to the theater than spend more money seeing something at an expensive opera house. The theater was getting in all the most popular movies from “Etta of the Footlights” and “A Good Little Devil”."
"in motion for a new and more modern theater to be built. The Falls Theater was built from January to July 1927, costing $25,000. Owned by Phil Ramer and Emil Carisch, it was leased by the George E. Miner Amusement Company from 1927 to 1952. The theater contained leather seats, curtains to reduce noise and light, two bathrooms, and two projectors. The first film to be shown was ""Painting the Town"", with a price of 10-25 cents. The theater bought a neon sign in 1936. Although it did not have any concessions available, if popcorn was desired, it could be"
"views of ordinary slices of life — street scenes, the activities of police or firemen, or shots of a passing train. On Saturday, April 14, 1894, Edison's Kinetoscope began commercial operation. The Holland Brothers opened the first Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway in New York City and for the first time, they commercially exhibited movies, as we know them today, in their amusement arcade. Patrons paid 25 cents as the admission charge to view films in five kinetoscope machines placed in two rows. Nearly 500 people became cinema's first major audience during the showings of films with titles such as"
"needed new product. The growth of longer films, which nickelodeons played a large part in stimulating, also led to the development of intertitles, which appeared in 1903 and helped make actions and scenes clearer as storylines became more complicated. A side-effect of this change was that it minimized the role of exhibitors, since they no longer had the editorial control of organizing single-shot films into programs, and now their narrative responsibility (some exhibitors would talk and help explain narratives as they unfolded) was also minimized by this ""internal narration"" in the film. Nickelodeon (movie theater) The nickelodeon was the first"
"of one. The tactic worked, audiences considered the cost of a theater ticket good value for several hours of escapist and varied entertainment, and the practice became a standard pattern of programming. In the typical 1930s double bill, the screening began with a variety program consisting of trailers, a newsreel, a cartoon and/or a short film preceding a low-budget second feature (the B movie), followed by a short interlude. Lastly, the high-budget main feature (the A movie) ran. A neighborhood theatre running a double feature won out over a higher-priced first-run theatre with only one feature film. The major studios"
"equipment from village to village and saved their fuel to run the generators. Even then they had to buy extra fuel on the black market at up to 30 shillings a gallon. The children of the showmen went to the local national schools for the duration of their stay; some went to 16 - 18 schools a year. Admission fees were around 1 shilling and 6 pence to 2 shillings for adults around the time when they ceased to tour in the 1960s. The arrival of TV ended these mobile cinemas however they will be remembered for bringing cinema to"
"the hall was modified into a first-rate cinema, with new projection equipment and cushioned chairs arranged in sloped auditorium seating. The debut movie in the refitted hall was ""One Foot in Heaven"" on December 9, 1941, followed the next week by ""The Maltese Falcon"". Over the years the latest Hollywood movies would screen in Pequot Lakes just as they did in major cities around the nation. Although tickets cost 12¢ or less for children and 35¢ or less for adults, the cinema proved to be a significant money-maker, bolstered by the growing numbers of summer tourists. The Commercial Club was"
"during World War II in the bombing of Bodø. Originally, the cinema played silent shorts, with four to five screenings at each showing. All screenings were accompanied by live piano. The original price for the cinema was 25 øre for adults, and 10 øre for children. The first films included comedies, such as ""Liquid Electricity"" (""Flytende elektrisitet""), ""Adventures of A Magician"" (""Tryllekunstnerens eventyr""), and dramas such as ""Samson and Dahlila"" (""Samson og Dalilla""). Petter, the son of Ole J. B., worked as a helper at the cinema from its inception, through the move to Storgata 8, and until Ole J."
"much to say that modern cinema began with the nickelodeons."" The name ""Nickelodeon"" was first used in 1888 by Colonel William Austin for his ""Austin's Nickelodeon"", a dime museum located in Boston, Massachusetts. The term was popularized by Harry Davis and John P. Harris, who opened a small storefront theater with the name on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1905. Although it was not the first theater to show films, in 1919 a news article stated that it was the first theater in the world ""devoted exclusively to exhibition of moving picture spectacles"". Davis and Harris found"
"life savings of $75 into converting an ailing cabaret theatre in Montreal's downtown into the first theatre dedicated to showing moving pictures of Canada, the Ouimetoscope. Despite the small screen, the theatre was an instant success, keeping its 500 seats filled at every showing. One year later, he reinvested his profits to construct a 1,200 seat amphitheatre with plush seating and air conditioning, a rarity at the time, making it one of the very first movie palaces. Despite the large investment and the luxurious venue, admission ranging from ten to thirty cents allowed even the working class man and woman"
"system, which released scents through the air conditioning system of a theater, was first used for the travelogue ""Behind the Great Wall"" in December 1959. ""Scent of Mystery"", released in 1960, used a more technologically advanced system, called Smell-O-Vision. It was designed to pipe scents individually to each seat in the theater. Costs of the system were high. It took an estimated $25 to $30 per seat to install and use Smell-O-Vision, at a time when a movie ticket cost less than a dollar. Ads for the film proclaimed: ""First they moved (1895)! Then they talked (1927)! Now they smell!"""
"which originated in the ""...late 14c., [meaning an] ""open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays"". The term ""theater"" comes from the Old French word ""theatre"", from the 12th century and ""...directly from Latin theatrum [which meant] 'play-house, theater; stage; spectators in a theater'"", which in turn came from the Greek word ""theatron"", which meant ""theater; the people in the theater; a show, a spectacle,"" [or] literally ""place for viewing."" The use of the word ""theatre"" to mean a ""building where plays are shown"" dates from the 1570s in the English language. The earliest precursors to movies"
"century, when the medium was new, many Jewish immigrants found employment in the US film industry. They were able to make their mark in a brand-new business: the exhibition of short films in storefront theaters called nickelodeons, after their admission price of a nickel (five cents). Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers (Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack) had switched to the production side of the business. Soon they were the heads of a new kind of enterprise: the movie studio. (The US had at"
"1930 the total investment in the film industry jumped from $78 million to $850 million. The average weekly attendance at American movie theatres doubled from 40 million in 1922 to 80 million in 1928. A key component to this growth was the creation of movie theatres. There was competition to provide a tremendous experience which led to the extravagant era of the Picture Palace. The term Picture Palace is used to describe the opulent style of theatre that seated thousands. The iconographic features of the exterior of the theatre were designed to make the front of the theatre a ""show"
"of debate; candidates include Tally's Electric Theatre, established 1902 in Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh's Nickelodeon, established 1905. Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years. In the United States, these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Historically, all mass-marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. In 1971 U-Matic became the first magnetic format in which movies"
"the cinema at an early age. As a youngster, he worked a variety of jobs in local theaters, including projectionist and assistant manager. As a manager of a cinema during the Depression, Lippert encouraged regular attendance with promotions such as ""Dish Night"" and ""Book Night"". Lippert went from cinema manager to owning a chain of cinemas in California in 1942, during the peak years of theater attendance. Lippert's theaters in Los Angeles often screened older films for a continuous 24 hours with an admission price of 25 cents. Not only did his theaters attract shift workers and late-night revelers, but"
"boasted a one-screen auditorium with a balcony. It also featured a pool hall and three offices upstairs, one of which housed the city's Chamber of Commerce. The theatre opened for business on November 9, 1938 with the western ""Born to the West"". The price of admission was 11 cents and a box of popcorn was a dime. A man from Prentiss was initially hired to run the theatre, but he was soon ""sent packing"" and Edgar French told his son, George Lewis French, ""You're taking over that picture show"". Lewis French, who had worked in his father's ice plant growing"
"conduct a ""four-waller"" promotion for his film ""The Peanut Butter Solution"" which had fared poorly in the English Canadian market. In 1986, major renovations resulted in new concession stand and box office spaces, while 492 wider seats replaced the original set of approximately 600 seats. In 1988, the Mayfair's regular admission price was $5, or $3.50 for those with theatre memberships which were available for $5 per year, or $3 per year for students. During that time, membership numbered more than 5000. Double features became available on all days as of 1 April 1990 as the Chinese-language films were discontinued."
"licence acquired by the foundation; in return, it paid 8% of its gross revenue to the foundation. In its turn, the foundation was paying 40% of its net gains to three different associations. The cinema opened on 28 December 1929 with a screening of the American sound film romance ""White Shadows in the South Seas"" which received an Oscar for best cinematography. At the time, the cinema was managed by Rudolf Valenta, and since 1930 by Rudolf Urban. The entrance fee ranged between 3 and 7 Czechoslovak crowns. While the overall earnings are unknown, the foundation received a yearly share"
"marquee and the listings for it in the local newspaper constituted all the advertising most movies got"", writes Epstein. Aside from at the theater itself, B films might not be advertised at all. The introduction of sound had driven costs higher: by 1930, the average U.S. feature film cost $375,000 to produce. A broad range of motion pictures occupied the B category. The leading studios made not only clear-cut A and B films, but also movies classifiable as ""programmers"" (also known as ""in-betweeners"" or ""intermediates""). As Taves describes, ""Depending on the prestige of the theater and the other material on"
"backgrounds while he was not from a wealthy family. On weekends, his schoolmates watched movies at the cinemas. Bao did not join them initially but he did so later when he felt left out, and became addicted to movies. At the time, Tianjin's cinemas were divided into three classes (A, B and C), with A screening the latest movies but having the priciest tickets. Bao could only afford to watch movies in the B and C class theatres, but he saved the allowance his parents gave him for buying snacks, and spent it at the cinema every weekend. Bao recalled"
"movie shown was ""Wives Beware"", starring Adolphe Menjou. The charge was $0.25 per person and $0.25 per automobile, with a maximum cost of $1. Hollingshead sold the theatre in 1935 and opened another one. Park-It Theatres licensed the concept to Loews Drive-In Theatres, Inc., but had trouble collecting royalties in 1937. Eventually, after Loews was taken to court, Hollingshead's patent was ruled invalid in 1950. Richard Hollingshead Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr. (February 25, 1900 - May 13, 1975) was the inventor of the drive-in theater. In the early 1930s, he was working as a sales manager in his father's auto"
"For 25 cents a viewer could see all the films in either row; half a dollar gave access to the entire bill. The machines were purchased from the new Kinetoscope Company, which had contracted with Edison for their production; the firm, headed by Norman C. Raff and Frank R. Gammon, included among its investors Andrew M. Holland, one of the entrepreneurial siblings, and Edison's former business chief, Alfred O. Tate. The ten films that comprise the first commercial movie program, all shot at the Black Maria, were descriptively titled: ""Barber Shop"", ""Bertoldi (mouth support)"" (Ena Bertoldi, a British vaudeville contortionist),"
"Film Company, a cartel that boycotted Shaw films. Undaunted by the opposition and prejudice, Runme and Run Run persevered to carve out a market share for themselves. By 1927, they began operating their own cinema in Tanjong Pagar so as to show their films. The makeshift timber cinema, known as ""The Empire"", was leased to the Shaw brothers at a monthly rent of S$2,000, a large amount by today's value. The first film shown at ""The Empire"" was a Chinese theatre play, called ""Romance of the Opera"", produced by Runme's own company. White cloth hung from the ceiling served as"