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Academy Theatre, Inglewood, auditorium

Description:
The overlapping wall and ceiling surfaces, illuminated by indirect lighting, create a powerful perspective that focuses on the screen. The floor plan (2070001) and ceiling plan (2070001) show how the effect was achieved. Oversize leaf forms decorate the walls. Dark borders edging the ceiling panels accentuate the perspective.
Date:
1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Shulman, Julius
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Academy Theatre, Inglewood, auditorium

Academy Theatre, Inglewood, street elevation

Description:
The Academy Theatre was Leeýs most fully realized design in the Streamline Moderne mode. The extensive use of glass block, stainless steel, curved forms and modern graphics gave the building an image of modernity that suited the transitory commercial building type of the motion picture theatre, but was not often attempted in residential architecture or most commercial architecture.
Date:
1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Shulman, Julius
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Academy Theatre, Inglewood, street elevation

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 4, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 5, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction detail

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction detail

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction, pouring concrete

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 5, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction, pouring concrete

Drive-in theatre, San Diego, screen, street view

Description:
The Rancho Drive-In in San Diego was built in the same year (1948) as the Edwards Drive-In in Arcadia. Although no construction photos survive, the construction technique was presumably similar. In this example, Lee used the street side of the screen structure to feature a colorful mural-like scene of the Mexican landscape illuminated from behind, a cultural reference appropriate to the border city of San Diego.
Date:
April 10, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, San Diego, screen, street view

Follies Theatre, lobby entrance

Description:
The Lee collection contains a number of photographs of theatres that Lee was charged with remodeling. This series of photos of a turn-of-the-century vaudeville theatre illustrates by contrast the innovations developed by architects for motion picture theatres. The entry to these older theatres was often off the street, through a long hallway. Advertising displays were merely cardboard signs.
Date:
[between 1930-1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Follies Theatre, lobby entrance

Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, auditorium

Description:
The auditorium is a so-called atmosphere theatre, a popular design type which created a stage set surrounding the audience. In this example, the auditorium simulates a Spanish Colonial Revival village into which the audience enters to see the show. Simulated buildings project from the walls, ivy hangs from their balconies and windows, trees painted on the wall behind provide a natural setting, and the whole is illuminated to create a realistic effect. Above is the dark sky, painted with clouds and featuring twinkling lights simulating the stars.
Date:
1929-1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Luckhaus Studio
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, auditorium