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The Carthay Circle Theater opened at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard on May 18, 1926, with a showing of The Volga Boatman (1926), [1] and was considered developer J. Harvey McCarthy's most successful monument, a stroke of shrewd thinking that made a famous name of the newly developed Carthay Center neighborhood [2] [3] in Los Angeles, California. [4]
Charles Henry Gonda (22 June 1889 – 1 April 1969), professionally known as C. H. Gonda, was a Hungarian architect famous for his ultra-modern style of building.He was active in Shanghai throughout the 1920s–1940s and began working on his first project, the Messrs, Lane, Crawford & Co's New Frontage building, in 1922 after leaving his previous firm Probst, Hanbury & Co..
The theater, site of film premieres including Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (their first full-length animated film) and the West Coast premiere of Gone with the Wind, inspired the community to change the name from “Carthay Center” to “Carthay Circle.” [5] The theater was demolished in 1969 [7] to make way for a new office ...
Cathay, North Dakota, United States; Cathays, a district of Cardiff, the capital of Wales; Cathay Theatre , a historical landmark movie theatre in Shanghai; In media: Cathay (poetry collection), a book of poems by Ezra Pound; Cathay (Warhammer), a fictional nation in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy universe; Other: Cathay Bank, a Chinese ...
Shanghai is a 2010 American neo-noir [3] political thriller film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring John Cusack and Gong Li. It was released in China on June 17, 2010. The film had a limited release in the United States on October 2, 2015 to negative reviews, with criticism for its direction and story. It also performed poorly at the box ...
The logo of Cathay Cineplexes in Singapore. Cathay Cineplexes is a cinema chain established in 1939 in Singapore. The Cineplexes started as Cathay Cinema as Singapore's first air-conditioned cinema and first to screen American and British films in Singapore. The company is owned and operated by Singapore-listed media conglomerate mm2 ...
In October 2008 the Mann Chinese 6 Theatre complex in Hollywood was the first 3-D-ready commercial cinema to unveil the installation of Iosono technology, featuring 380 speakers. [9] In April 2009 the Mann Chinese 6 was among the first to present motion-enhanced theatrical films featuring 30 D-BOX motion controlled seats. [10] [11]
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...