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The theatre rooms, each equipped with a cot, were used as a cheap hotel by customers. [3] The rooms in the video store were located in a narrow hallway with only a single exit via the reception. There were no sprinklers or smoke ventilation, and the video's manager turned off the alarm after the fire broke out as he thought it was a false alarm ...
Box Office Poison is the title given in popular culture to a trade magazine advertisement taken out on May 4, 1938, in The Hollywood Reporter by the Independent Theatre Owners Association. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Penned by the group's president, Harry Brandt, the title of the red-bordered ad [ 3 ] was WAKE UP!
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The shooting occurred in theater 14 [9] during the 7:10 p.m. screening of Trainwreck, held at the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette. [10] [11] John Russell Houser, 59, went to the theater alone, bought a ticket ten minutes late into the movie, [12] and sat for several minutes in the theater's second-to-last row.
Projection booths that were segregated and equipped with fire prevention, fighting and containment infrastructure gradually became a legal requirement throughout the developed world. A typical example of the regulation that emerged during this period was the fire safety provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1909 in the United Kingdom .
Cinema Statuto was a movie theater located in Turin, Italy, when on 13 February 1983, at 18:15, during the projection of La Chèvre, a fire caused the death of 64 people as a result of smoke inhalation. According to statements by Raimondo Capella, the owner of the cinema, the flames spread from an old curtain.
During the evening showing of a motion picture, a projector malfunction resulted in a sudden flash of light on the screen. Although no fire resulted, a crowd of theater patrons rushed to the exit of the second story theater and became lodged in the doorway which served as the theater's main entrance and exit.
The Ohio Theatre is a performing arts center and former movie palace on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. Known as the "Official Theatre of the State of Ohio", the 1928 building was saved from demolition in 1969 and was later completely restored. [3] [4] The theater was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. [3] [5]