Movie Theaters Essay

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Movie Theaters The beginning of movie theaters began in the early 1800’s and has successfully stayed as a great way of entertainment throughout the 2000’s. Before the 1800’s theaters were a form of recreation for communities and was a place of pleasurable experience, to see an opera, ballet, or a play. Movie theaters were a new creation from theaters and were replaced from being called movie palaces. Movie palaces had magnificent designs and offered affordable low prices to view movies which would attract the consumers. The first movie palace was built in 1913 called The Regent in New York City, “it held impressive lobbies with rich European décor were intended to give moviegoers the feeling of being royalty and be an escape from the day-to-day world” (Parish 1). Following from only a few movie palaces started a boom of 4,000 new movie theaters in 1914 to 1922 in the United Sates. Movie theaters have come long ways and a lot has changed since the early 1800’s comparing from today’s movie theaters. But in the 1920’s movie theaters were different “many became themed, and there were those that had Egyptian, Turkish, Chinese, and Persian themes, along with theaters that simply had skies painted on the ceiling, or box seats that were formed to look like a street scene” (Parish 1). And in comparing to then and now, they converted the first theater from a vacant retail store in 1896 named the Called Vitascope Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana. The existence of theaters has not always been under in a good light by this I mean movie theaters became a little dark in the sense of the depressing and that was when The Depression and World War II started. The Depression and World War II changed theaters, theaters were decorated much simpler compared to the 1920’s and theaters also became “place to view newsreels about the war and learn about bond drives” (Parish 1). This

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