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Author Topic: First Twin Theatre Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-10-2015 05:12 PM                     My rule for a long time has been that I will NOT patronize any theaters that have been split. Even if it's a multi-screen theater that might have one old auditorium split and the rest of them newer and un-split, I still won't patronize it at all.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-12-2015 09:48 PM                        Ok, Moving Picture World, Jan 4, 1913, so the theatre had to have been built in 1912. Weirdest twin I've ever heard of:  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-12-2015 10:21 PM                        quote: Marcel Birgelen I don't know many theaters around here where they did this. In most cases they just separated the balcony from the main room, leaving the stalls and the screen of the original room mostly intact. In Britain, the Odeon chain in particular would also build a partition wall down the middle of the stalls, thereby turning one house into three. Among other problems, this didn't do much for the sound quality, especially when these houses were retrofitted for Dolby A-type and surround speakers hung on that thin partition wall. At one such place I worked, I remember The Lion King and Reservoir Dogs playing side-by-side in the divided former main stalls. During the quieter passages in the Disney pic, cries of motherfucker this and asshole that, not to mention 1970s music and the screaming of the gunshot and torture victims, were clearly audible through the wall, much to the amusement of the children and the horror of their parents.  |  IP: Logged Mike Rivest Expert Film Handler Posts: 185 From: Montréal QC Canada Registered: Nov 2009 posted 08-16-2015 11:27 AM                     Grand opening ad for the Mall duplex theatre in Cleveland from March 17th, 1917 can be seen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/30943004@N00/20186470951/in/album-72157656619163575/ Also found an October 10th, 1912 ad for the Oxford theatre in Cleveland. can be seen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/30943004@N00/20628357605/in/album-72157656619163575/  |  IP: Logged

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