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Image of the Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse. The "Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse", located at 2903 Columbia Pike, is the only remaining theater in Arlington County, Virginia from the cinema boom period of the 1930s and 1940s that still operates as a movie theater, and is currently one of four movie theaters operating in Arlington County.
Commodore Theatre is an historic movie theater located at Portsmouth, Virginia.It was built in 1945 in the Streamline Art Deco style, and originally sat 1,000 people. [3] The theater closed in 1975 and sat empty until a change in ownership and extensive renovation beginning in 1987. [3]
After acquiring Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas, and Carmike Cinemas in 2016, it became the largest movie theater chain in the world. [3] It has 2,807 screens in 353 European theaters and 7,755 screens in 593 American theaters. [2] [4]
With a further $150 million from the Packard Humanities Institute and $82.1 million from Congress, the facility was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which completed construction in mid-2007, and after transfer of the bulk of archives, opened for free public movie screenings on most weekends in the fall 2008. The ...
The Byrd Theatre opened for the first time on December 24, 1928. At the time, adult tickets were 50 cents for evening shows and 25 cents for matinees, while a child's ticket was only 10 cents. The first movie was the film Waterfront, a First National film starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. In addition, the manager at the time was ...
Pitts Theatre, also known as the State Theatre after 1970, is a historic movie theater located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in 1937–1938, and is a concrete block structure faced in brick in the Art Deco style. The building consists of a symmetrical three-bay façade, with a central theater entrance flanked by ...
The Island Theatre is a historic U.S. building located at 4074 Main Street, Chincoteague, Virginia.It still serves as an operational movie theater.Originally named Island Theatre, the theatre was renamed Island Roxy from the 1980s until the name was reverted to Island Theatre in 2013.
In 2007, in partnership with Arlington County, Virginia, Signature moved into its current facility, a $16 million theater complex in The Village at Shirlington. [1] [4] The first floor of the building houses the Shirlington Branch of the Arlington County Public Library, [5] the upper three floors house the theater. The complex has an industrial ...