Subject: motion picture theaters / Subject: Marquees - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The design evolved into a storefront remodel using every device to capture attention from the passerby. The strong diamond pattern applied to the upper story, the series of vertical posts applied at street and the paneled entry doors draw attention to the centerpiece, the curving neon-outlined marquee. A curved box office at the sidewalk and poster cases framed in wavey edged box frames are overwhelmed by the other design elements. Here the chief purpose of the design is to draw attention to the storefront, using a variety of cheap applied elements without regard for design integration.
Date:: 1947-48
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee depicts the basic elements of the marquee, the sign, and the entrance in this drawing.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This night photo of the marquee with its neon strips and interior illuminated sign was taken as a publicity photo for Bevelite, the manufacturer of the removable letters used to spell out the names of the show and the stars on the marquee.
Date:: 1944-45
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Western Photo Co.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Photograph of the exterior of the Chino Theatre in Chino, California in daylight.
Date:: 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Ritter, Bob
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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