When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, by William Paul by Tober Corrigan

“…Upon realising the exhibition format had originally been implemented to make up for lacklustre viewing experiences in ginormous movie palaces, he was inspired to write a revision of the early movie exhibition nostalgia found in Ben M. Hall’s The Best Remaining Seats: The Golden Age of the Movie Palace and Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs’s Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theatres.…”
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