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This man is important in searching for the history of hoolywood in the United States. He was a film pioneer that we should include his work and partnership with Edison in the WIKI.

Tells us how the drive in's are suffering because of the digital switch.

This video talks about the new IMAX technologies and future ones as well. IMAX CEO is in this video where he talks about film screens and future plans of his company

They were known by many different names at the time, some borrowed from legitimate theaters or famous monikers to give them style -- the Bijou Dream, the Tivoli, or the Edison. Some were dank holes that crawled with roaches and reeked with disinfectant.

Date of Birth 7 January 1873, Ricse, Austria-Hungary. [now in Hungary] Date of Death 10 June 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA Height 5' (1.52 m) Mini Biography Adolph Zukor's success began with penny arcades, offering moving peepshows that evolved into nickelodeon theaters that offered longer, larger moving pictures.

This link is very informative about how visual effects started in the movie theaters. It also talks about lots of inventions such as a device called a praxinoscope.

some more ideas of what may happen to theaters

good pictures for futuristic 3D technology

Movie tickets are expensive because local theaters have to pay studios a large portion of their revenues. Many movie tickets...