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

Description:: The floor plan (2070001) shows how the geometry of overlapping circles shaped the design. The architectural drawing of the façade (2070002) depicts a spool of film unwinding, the inspiration for the spiral form used on the pylon (10102-10103)). Compare the photo of the auditorium (10105) with the floor plan (2070001) and the ceiling plan (2070002).
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: On this wall an archer takes aim at a gazelle, while birds fly overhead. Jewel-like lanterns composed of geometrically shaped glass panes hang from the ceiling.
Date:: 1930-31
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Woodcock, W.P.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Main entrance to the auditorium. No matter what aisle one is to be accommodated at, he enters thru this main portal. All ushers' resistance has been overcome by this mode of entrance. This feature has been protected in the Note on back of photograph: Patent Office by the Architec
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Shulman, Julius
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: The glamour of the movies is suggested by the tropical palms decorating the side walls and the dramatic swags simulating a sumptuous curtain that frame...
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Massive arches and stenciled decoration on the staircase walls carry out the Spanish Colonial Revival theme.
Date:: 1929-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: The box office ticket window is framed by cast stone detailing suggesting a theatre curtain drawn open. Below the window is a small sign giving the name of the architect and the date, a detail usually omitted on buildings in the United States.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Set right on the sidewalk, the poster cases are large and sleek. They provide a glimpse of the show within to every passerby. Titles in both English and Spanish reflect Miamiýs Latin American population, which is also depicted in the mural in the foyer. (40812,40813).
Date:: 1946-1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Put this with 50401-50408. A discussion of these various concepts will pull these images together.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: The crying room, a feature of many theatres of the period, was a soundproof glass-walled viewing room for mothers with small children. Here the model demonstrates the audio device that transmitted sound to individual viewers. The acoustic tile on the walls began to be widely used in the 1940s and soon became ubiquitous.
Date:: 1946-47
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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