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1. www.motionpictures.org › 2013 › 04“Playing the Palace”: A History Of Motion Picture Palaces

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   Apr 15, 2013 · The Fox Theatre of Detroit was the studio’s midwestern flagship movie palace, built in 1928 at the dawn of sound films; it was the first theatre to include a speaker system. Among the glories of the Warner Brothers movie palaces are the Warner Hollywood Theatre, built in 1928 and today known as the Hollywood Pacific Theatre. It seated 2,700 ...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Movie_palaceMovie palace - Wikipedia

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   Movie palace. A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is a large, elaborately decorated movie theater built from the 1910s to the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930. With the advent of television, movie attendance dropped, while the rising popularity of ...

3. historigraphics.com › fox › buildingThe Fox Theatre San Francisco - The Building

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   William Fox planned to build the movie palace to end all movie palaces under the direction of Fox West Coast Theatres. At the start of 1926, Fox announced that a new theatre, initially named the Capital Theatre, would be erected in San Francisco - intended as a sister theatre to Broadway's Capitol Theatre, in New York.

4. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › movie-palacesMovie Palaces Let Everyday Americans Be Royalty

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   The movie-palace boom “marked the beginning of the rise of the studio system, which would dominate Hollywood from the 1920s into the 1950s,” History.com writes. ... MGM and 20th Century Fox ...

5. www.latimes.com › business › hollywoodFox oral history: Inside the legendary studio at the end of ...

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   Mar 8, 2019 · March 8, 2019 3 AM PT. Fox star Shirley Temple trying to coax a china-dish hen to lay an egg so she can make an omelet, in the kitchen of Temple’s bungalow cottage on the Fox studio lot, 1934 ...

6. www.thestudiotour.com › wp › studiosFox Studios: Chronology - theStudioTour.com

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   Fox sent a representative to from New York to Hollywood to oversee the expansion of production facilities at the former Dixon Studios site, which was situated in East Hollywood at Sunset & Western. This was the base for Fox between 1917 and 1924. The Deluxe lab (which was based on the site from 1917 until it closed in May 2014) takes up a large ...

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   Did Fox Studios build a movie palace?

   • Under its Fox Theatre Chain banner, Fox Studios built many incredible movie palaces. One such example is The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, designed in 1930 by architect S. Charles Lee in the Art Deco style.

   “Playing the Palace”: A History Of Motion Picture Palaces

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   When was the Fox Theatre built in Detroit?

   • The Fox Theatre of Detroit was built in 1928 and was the studio’s midwestern flagship movie palace, it was the first theatre to include a speaker system. Among the glories of the Warner Brothers movie palaces is the Hollywood Pacific Theatre, also built in 1928.

   “Playing the Palace”: A History Of Motion Picture Palaces

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   Which movie palace was built in 1928?

   • The Hollywood Pacific Theatre, built in 1928, is among the glories of the Warner Brothers movie palaces. It seated 2,700 and was one of the few theatres in Hollywood large enough to be converted for the widescreen Cinerama process in 1953.

   “Playing the Palace”: A History Of Motion Picture Palaces

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   Why was the movie palace developed?

   • The movie palace was developed as the step beyond the small theaters of the 1900s and 1910s. As motion pictures developed as an art form, theatre infrastructure needed to change. Storefront theatres and nickelodeons catered to the busy work lives and limited budgets of the lower and middle classes.

   Movie palace - Wikipedia

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   What is a movie palace?

   • A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is a large, elaborately decorated movie theater built from the 1910s to the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930.

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   When did movie palaces start?

   • The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930. With the advent of television, movie attendance dropped, while the rising popularity of large multiplex chains in the 1980s and 1990s signaled the obsolescence of single-screen theaters.

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8. www.cnn.com › 2019/12/25 › usStep inside one of the last remaining movie palaces in ... - CNN

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   Dec 25, 2019 · And in 1932, only 125 weeks after it opened, William Fox and the theatre were forced to declare bankruptcy, and Fox lost his namesake movie palace. The Fox was auctioned on the courthouse steps ...