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Coolidge Corner Theatre was built as a Universalist church in 1906 and was redesigned as an Art Deco movie palace in 1933 as the community's first movie theater. [1] [3] [4] The theater opened on December 30, 1933 with its first film being a Disney short film. [4] Originally the theater only had one screen but was later divided into two and ...
The Modern Theatre [note 1] is located on Washington Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.It opened as a movie theater in 1914 in a former commercial building that had been repurposed by noted theater architect Clarence H. Blackall.
Keith's Theatre, Tremont Street, Boston, c. 1906 (Library of Congress) B.F. Keith's Theatre (1894–1928) in Boston , Massachusetts , was a vaudeville playhouse run by B.F. Keith . It sat across from Boston Common in the city's theatre district, with an entrance on Tremont Street and another on Washington Street . [ 1 ]
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]
It is the only domed IMAX theater in New England and is one of only 60 IMAX Theaters in the world to offer 180 degree domed viewing. The seats are set at a steep (cliff-side) angle and recline about thirty degrees, the screen is five stories tall, and the theater is filled with an impressive surround sound system.
The Strand was built in 1918 as a movie and vaudeville house. It opened on the evening of Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), billed as Dorchester's million-dollar movie palace, with a double feature: Queen of the Sea, starring Annette Kellermann, and Out of a Clear Sky, starring Marguerite Clark, with extra added attraction Miss Emilie Earle, the songstress. [1]