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The 1920s saw the company move into installing seating in movie palaces. [9] Its furniture was exhibited at the 1933 Century of Progress exhibition and at the 1964 New York World's Fair. [10] During the 1930s and 1940s Heywood-Wakefield began producing furniture using sleek designs based on French Art Deco. [11]
This type of seat became standard in almost all US movie theaters. [8] Several movie studios achieved vertical integration by acquiring and constructing theater chains. The so-called "Big Five" theater chains of the 1920s and 1930s were all owned by studios: Paramount, Warner, Loews (which owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Fox, and RKO.
It was built in the Art Deco style of architecture - or more specifically, the Streamline Moderne variant that Art Deco had largely evolved into in the 1930s. The theater opened to the public on September 21, 1938, with the first film shown at the theater Little Miss Broadway starring Shirley Temple. [1] [2] [3]
John Eberson was the most successful promoter and designer of the atmospheric style. His last atmospheric design in the US was the "Midwest Theatre" at 17 N. Harvey Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which opened August 1, 1930, but was demolished in 1976.
Hollywood Pantages Theatre, the last theater built in the Pantages Theatre Circuit and also the last movie palace built in Hollywood, was built by Alexander Pantages in 1929 and opened on June 4, 1930. The theater was designed to seat 3,212, but it opened with extra legroom and wider seats, reducing seating capacity to 2,812.
A movie theater is usually called cinema in Anglophone countries outside North America. Other terms for the venue include movie house, film house, film theater, or picture house. In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere it is theatre.
The movie follows visionary architect László Toth, who escapes post-war Europe and arrives in America “to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced ...
By 1926, American Seating produced over half of the theatre, school, church, and lodge furniture in the United States. [21] After having offices in New York and Chicago, the company consolidated its offices in Grand Rapids in 1931. [1] During World War II, the company's production focused on the war effort. This included the production of seats ...