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Throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, the Somerville remained a prime neighborhood movie house. In those days, new films would open at the downtown theaters like the RKO Keiths (now the Boston Opera House), the Paramount, the Metropolitan (now the Citi Performing Arts Center) and the Loew's Orpheum (now a concert hall). After playing downtown ...
The Paramount Theater (formerly known as Julia Sanderson Theater and The Hippodrome) is an historic theater located at 1676-1708 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1926 out of part of the grand Massasoit House hotel [ 2 ] at a cost of over $1 million, the Paramount Theater was the most ornate picture palace in Western ...
Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. [1] The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site [ 2 ] for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot (117,000 m 2 ) development originally slated to be complete in 2010.
Soon the company opened vaudeville houses and movie palaces. Loew's theaters were found in cities throughout the United States, but primarily in East Coast and Midwest states. To provide films for his theaters, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924, by merging the earlier firms Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer ...
It is one of the few remaining movie theaters, if not the only one, to use a rear-projection system; the projector is located behind the screen rather than behind the audience. The Brattle Theatre mainly screens a mixture of foreign, independent, and classic films, and began showing repertory and foreign films in February 1953.
The RKO Boston Theatre was a movie theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, located at 616 Washington Street, near Essex Street in the Boston Theater District. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It opened as the Keith-Albee Boston Theatre on October 5, 1925.
Former cinemas and movie theaters in Boston (18 P) Pages in category "Cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Paramount opened in 1932 as a 1,700-seat, single-screen movie theatre. It was one of the first movie houses in Boston to play talking motion pictures. The theatre was named after its original owner, Paramount Pictures. It closed in 1976 and most of the Art Deco interior decoration was destroyed in the 1980s during the removal of asbestos. [2]