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Topia!: Arts: Architecture: History: Building Types: Theaters and Cinemas (32)
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Theaters - Great Buildings Online provides photographs, details and bibliographies for a number of significant theaters of all periods across the world. Theatre Royal, York, UK - The official site includes a brief history of the theater built in 1744 and re-modelled in the 19th century. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London - The official site includes images and archaeological evidence of the original Elizabethan circular theater, the story of its reconstruction (1994-7) and a timeline. The KiMo Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico - A picture palace in the flamboyant, short-lived, Pueblo Deco style, designed by Carl Boller in 1925. Photographs and history from the City of Albuquerque. Swedish Cinemas - This stylish site by Kjell Furberg, cinema historian and photographer, provides an architectural feast from the silent era onwards. English and Swedish language versions. American Picture Palaces - Illustrated history by the University of Virginia of the extravagant buildings that sprang up in the inter-war years to house the movies. Includes socio-economic background, guide to Art Deco. Cinema Treasures - Dedicated to saving classic movie theaters in the US. News, database, photographs, virtual tours and message boards. Also aims, founders, sponsors and volunteer staff of the web-site. Fox Theatre Building, Detroit, Michigan - Designed by C. Howard Crane and built in 1928, it is the "most exotic eclectic Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine theater of the golden age of the movie palace". Photographs, brief history. Theatre Royal Chatham, UK - The Theatre Royal Chatham Trust present a slide-show and illustrated history of this ornate Late-Victorian theater, and its efforts to save and restore it. Historic Movie Houses of Los Angeles - A list with dates and brief descriptions of the theaters built (1910-32) along South Broadway for films and vaudeville. Allen Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio - Photographs of the movie theater built in 1921, from RineStock Studios. Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California - The official site offers photographs and a history (with source) of this extraordinary Art Deco theater. The 1930s movie palace was designed by San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger. Drive In Theater - The American phenomenon which began in the 1930s: open-air cinemas, viewed from automobiles. An illustrated history and list of theaters both operating and closed. Aztec On The River Theatre - The official site of this theater in San Antonio (US), opened in 1926 in a fantasy Meso-American style. Includes photographs and history. Netherlands Cinema History - Karel Dibbets explores the theaters, the people, the companies, and the visitors of Dutch cinemas from 1906 to the present. Large list of cinemas with opening dates, some with architect. Shakespeare's Globe Research Database - Describes and illustrates London playhouses in the 16th and 17th century, particularly the original Globe Theatre, and its modern reconstruction. From Reading University. Palace Theatre - Historic photos and stories of 1925 theatre in Hilo, Hawaii. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - Peter McCurdy describes the reconstruction by his firm of the Elizabethan theater in London used by Shakespeare. Research, construction. Movie House History: Classic Theaters of Kansas - Paul Salley lists theaters, opera houses and drive-in theaters in Kansas, with some history. Banners. Theatre Historical Society of America - Nonprofit educational organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating historic theatres of all types in the United States. Recreating The Theater of Dionysus in Athens - A computer reconstruction of this ancient amphitheater from the e-journal Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today. The Ancient Theater of Ephesus - Ïbrahim Ataç explains in the CSA Newsletter that a computer model of theater at Ephesus is to be made. Illustrations are included. Carthalia - Andreas Praefcke's postcard collection of theatre buildings and concert halls worldwide. He provides notes on the history of some of the better-known ones. Historic Wayne Theatre - History and restoration of the vaudeville house built in 1926-1927 in the small town of Wayne, Michigan by local construction engineer Charles K. Miller. Saenger Theatres - A study of the former Saenger organization and its theaters, mainly in the US. A list, with illustrated histories of selected theaters, some now gone. Grand Vision Foundation - A non-profit organization to preserve and promote the Warner Grand Theater, an Art Deco movie palace in San Pedro, California. Includes a history of the theater, which opened in 1931. The Picture Palace - Louis Barfe's studies of UK cinema buildings and their architects. Kilduff's Movie Theatre Survey - A survey of movie theatres in Maryland built between 1900 and 1950. Photographs, building dates and descriptions. The Uptown Theatre - History of the landmark building in Chicago which opened in 1921, designed by architects Rapp and Rapp for the Balaban and Katz Corporation The Cinema Theatre Association - Promotes the study of old cinemas in the UK. Archives, publications, events, links. Preserve The Paramount - An appeal to save the Art Deco Paramount Theatre in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. Includes history and photographs.
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