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Specifically noted were the theater's neon signage, stucco facade, terrazzo and brick materials, and that the theater is the oldest in Hollywood. [4] The theater was shut down by Mann Theatres in 1992, [3] and two years later the Guinness World of Records Museum moved into the building. [5] In 2024, Hollywood Theatre was one of four Hollywood ...
In 1961, the theater was equipped to show 70 mm film, and in 1968, Stanley Warner sold the theater to Pacific Theatres, who renamed it Hollywood Pacific Theatre. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey , which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A ...
But for the first time ever, the Cinerama Dome began showing movies in the three-projector format. It is one of four known Cinerama theaters left [12] in the world, the others include: Pictureville Cinema, Seattle Cinerama, The New Neon Cinema, [13] and Cinerama restorationist and former Canadian broadcast engineer, Tom H. March's Calgary ...
Hollywood Pantages Theatre, the last theater built in the Pantages Theatre Circuit and also the last movie palace built in Hollywood, was built by Alexander Pantages in 1929 and opened on June 4, 1930. The theater was designed to seat 3,212, but it opened with extra legroom and wider seats, reducing seating capacity to 2,812. [4]
Holly Cinema, also known as Studio Theatre, Colony Theatre, Music Hall, Academy Theatre, and Loew's Holly Theatre, is a historic former movie theater located at 6523 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is best known for exhibiting Caligula exclusively for over a year in 1980–1981. [1]
Vista Theatre opened on October 9, 1923, [2] as a single-screen theater. In addition to screening films, the theater also showed vaudeville acts on stage. [3] Originally known as Lou Bard Playhouse on opening day in 1923, the cinema played the film Tips starring Baby Peggy. [4] The original seating capacity in the auditorium held space for 838 ...
The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.