Films like “Transformers” and the big blockbuster robots vs. monsters action fest “Pacific Rim” function scenes involving transport containers as integral props. In most markets, practically all single-display screen theaters (generally known as a “Uniplex”) have gone out of business; those remaining are generally used for arthouse movies, e.g. the Crest Theatre 18 in downtown Sacramento, California , small-scale productions, movie festivals or other displays.

Justus recalled in June of 1981 how his father never actually had an opportunity to take pleasure in any substantial returns from the theatre for ten years after he transformed it. “We might’ve been out of enterprise if it hadn’t been for speaking movies,” Justus said, the earliest of which “have been very onerous to grasp.” The Woodbine was the first theatre within the space to point out talking photos, which have been sound-on-disc like Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system (shown in the black-and-white TELEVISION promos for the 1955 film HELEN OF TROY and included in the DVD and VHS copies of that movie).

16 Within the United States, Stanley Durwood of American Multi-Cinema (now AMC Theatres ) is credited as pioneering the multiplex in 1963 after realizing that he could function a number of connected …