Genre: Black-and-white photographs / Subject: motion picture theaters - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: Automatic photo machines and automatic vending machines epitomized the automatic theme of the Studio. The wallpaper with nude silhouettes added to the stylish atmosphere.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Woodcock, W.P.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: These photographs of the State Theatre in Stockton show a early twentieth-century theatre that was used for stage acts and movies. These photographs were in Leeýs collection , because he was asked to submit a proposal for remodeling. The collection contains no records of his remodeling concepts.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Note on back of photograph: Carved glass panel depicting the Academy of Motion Pictures (from which the Theatre takes its name) and the Arts of the Theatre. At main entrance to auditorium. Panel is 10' [feet] high.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kako
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Simple curving lines and a sumptuously draped curtain suggest an understated elegance. The wall pilasters conceal indirect lights. Large round translucent glass discs in the ceiling diffuse the light over the space.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: The larger than life-size sculpture of hunter with a bow and his dog is sleek and heroic, in the style of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center or the work of Carl Milles.(40819,40819)
Date:: 1946-47
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This construction photo shows the basement and the mass of wood framing used to make the forms for the poured concrete. The large derrick in the background was used to lift the materials and equipment up as the building rose.
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Shouler, Mayson W.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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