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[edit] History
Anybody remember intermissions? I thought there might be an bit here on it, and also the girl who would come along and sell ice-cream, and Pearl and Dean. Along with a little line on the death of the local cinema in relation to the multiplexes. (The first of which in the UK was the Warner Bros one in Leicester I think).(Halbared 18:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC))
The last commercially distributed (albeit limited) movie to have an intermission that I remember was Hamlet, with Kenneth Brannagh. Moviegoers would be at the theatre for 6 hours. (The Lake Effect 01:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC))
[edit] "Venue" vs. "Building"
In the first sentence, wouldn't "venue" be a better word than "builing," since it would describe both indoor and outdoor theaters?
- If you feel it would be better, go ahead and change it. :-) —Frecklefoot 18:19, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Food and Berverages policies
Would the banning of outside food and beverages be legal as it is the same as banning someone if they are wearing a Nike shirt? Would it not count as Monopoly.
[edit] Ideas for expansion
Moved this from the article; it belongs here.
- some ideas for expansion of this article:
- history of the movie theater
- culture around 'going to the movies'
—Frecklefoot 18:19, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Living with your parents is relevant to movie theaters?
"...privacy in the back-row). This applies in particular for young people who still live with their parents, and these parents tend to monitor and/or forbid certain activities."
I agree with the 'back row' traditionally being associated with privacy, but the point about escaping parental control is surely irrelevant to an article about movie theaters. In its presently unqualified state it is unlikely to reflect movie theater culture worldwide either - is it a US-centric point? I would remove the line, any opinions? --Air 16:40, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] added link to new article
to projection screen, Santtus 11:14, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "Flea Pit" as synonym in British English for Movie theater?
Does anyone have documentation for this alleged usage in British English? It sounds so bizarre that I'm wondering if someone's playing a practical joke (as with the John Seigenthaler episode). --Coolcaesar 23:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- The term origionated from the unsanitary nature of smaller cinemas. Watch The Smallest Show on Earth for usage of the term
- From Oxford English Dictionary quotations
- 1937 Daily Herald 3 Feb. 12/4 Even the patrons of these palaces [sc. cinemas] referred to them as ‘*flea-pits’. Ibid., A peaked service cap with the name of the flea pit written on the band in gold braid. 1971 Ink 12 June 14/4 He went to a fleapit cinema.
- Usage on BBC Website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3833683.stm
[edit] Spelling
Article previously said:
- In the United States, the correct spelling of a theatre showing motion pictures (a "movie theatre") is "theatre". By contbyrast, "theater" is the correct spelling for a live-stage theater building. These spellings were made official by the National Association of Theatre Owners some time ago, yet most Americans do not know of this distinction.
- In the United Kingdom the spelling "theatre" can have both meanings, but is rarely used to refer to a cinema.
Correct spelling in English is determined by consensus of usage, not the mandate of trade organizations. A distinction doesn't really exist if nobody even knows about it. It also isn't attested in the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition. I didn't bother looking elsewhere... Go ahead if you'd like. Craigbutz 22:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Changes and reorganization
I did some work to reorganize and rewrite the article, consolidating some of the sections as subsections, etc. I added the "Multiplex and Megaplex" subsection with info from the megaplex article (which I may propose as a merge/delete candidate eventually) and the AMC Theatres article, which can now point to it here.
I generally chose to arrange the existing text into the structural changes instead of rewriting for now, even parts that could probably use some work in the future (the detailed description of how to walk along a row with people standing up or not reads somewhat strangely, for instance). As suggestions for other eager editors, if there is going to be an "Intimacy" section it really should include something about the role drive-ins have played in this regard, and the "Controversies" section could probably include something on the role of movie theater companies in NC-17 debate in the US.
I'm also proposing moving the entire "Major movie theatre companies" section into a separate article with a title such as "List of cinema and movie theatre companies" (which matches the appropriate category name), and leave just a reference to the list article here. David Oberst 09:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Matinee Loop
The wikified link from "matinee" under the "pricing and admission" subheading links to the matinee disambiguation page, which links directly back to this page (no where explaining what a matinee is). Someone needs to de-wikify the link from this page, and include an explination for what a matinee is.
Matt 20:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- I changed the link to go to the definition at wiktionary- there's only so much you can say about what a matinee is, and why reinvent the wheel, right?
[edit] Edits by Oberst
For no apparent reason, User:Oberst copied large portions of the multiplex and megaplex articles into this article without any attempt to summarize them or organize them, in direct violation of the Manual of Style. I am cleaning up the mess right now and raising the issue on the talk page so that other editors can monitor his edits in the future. If Oberst is unable to edit the article in a way that improves it (as opposed to damaging it) he may need to be taken to arbitration. --Coolcaesar 07:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I believe you need to take a mild tranquilizing pill. I had intended to do some more work here, and by not getting back to it I may have left a couple parts of the connected articles in an unfortunate inbetween state, but to call it vandalism is uncalled for. A few notes:
- I took the text from megaplex as part of the starter for the Multiplex/Megaplex section, intending to suggest it be turned into a redirect to movie theatre, as there is not enough text there to justify a main article/subarticle structure, and the entire multiplex/megaplex distinction seems best handled in the full movie theatre article. Given that there is no "multiplex" article, just a disambiguation redirect here, I became uncertain whether a redirect was desirable, since an enlargement of "megaplex" might also have been possible in the future, and forgot to revisit the issue and either put a "merge" suggestion tag on multiplex, or ask for it to be expanded.
- The "bad" text was largely already in place or taken from the AMC Theatres article (as Wikipedia's source of info on multiplex origins), not written by me, and I make no warranties for its quality. I was mainly attempting to organize existing contributions where possible, not completely evaluate and rewrite them, however desirable that might be in the future. Movie theatre is the appropriate place for the origins of the multiplex, which can then be summarized and/or linked to by the AMC and other theatre articles. I actually created a copy of the AMC article to start excising what I transferred here- there were some questions about non-AMC multiplex origins I was trying to track down. I didn't realize I hadn't made any alteration of the source section of the AMC article, which I regret, but that wouldn't have affected what was put in here.
- Since you presumably looked at the edit history, you would have seen a number of other significant edits I made at the same time, including rewriting the intro[1], consolidating existing sections into "Presentation" and adding to the text[2], etc., which were obviously not vandalism, and I would hope a brief look at my contributions would indicate i'm not some sort of rogue article destroyer. If you had a problem with the "Multiplex and Megaplex" section you could have contacted me directly and asked what happened, instead of going off on your little tantrum here.
Regards, - David Oberst 09:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major movie theatre companies section
From above: I'm also proposing moving the entire "Major movie theatre companies" section into a separate article with a title such as "List of cinema and movie theatre companies" (which matches the appropriate category name), and leave just a reference to the list article here. David Oberst 09:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think that's a great idea. --Usgnus 23:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Drive-ins
The section on Drive-in's makes the statement "They are now almost extinct". It is certainly true that the number of drive-ins is much, much lower than in their hey-day, they are not at all close to extinction. There are currently 407 drive-ins in the US. The 1990s saw a significant number of reopenings and even some new builds as they transitioned to a new family entertainment model.
