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Topic: Largest Multiplex?
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Ron Keillor
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 166
From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 07-30-2003 05:18 PM
Just a few notes on Granville Street theatres (Vancouver, B.C.) . The original Capitol Theatre auditorium was on the Seymour Street side, where the current 6-plex is. The entry was similar from Granville Street, with the enclosed walkway over the lane, and the first access being at the balcony level, a walk down stairs to reach the main floor. The balcony was a small one, and the booth very small; I was told by an old-timer that the original plans had neglected to include one (still in vaudeville days). The stages of the Capitol and Orpheum were back-to-back.
The small lobby area of the Vogue Theatre was explained by the inability to acquire property on Smythe Street, so the original plans were simply adapted to the space available.
And here's a 1973 shot of the west side of Granville, showing the Odeon (originally Plaza), Coronet (Paradise) and in the distance the Colonial.
Cineplex incorporated the Coronet into the Granville 6. Auditorium 7, the large upstairs one, and Cinema 1 in Oakridge were both built to THX specs, but the licensing was discontinued as a cost saver when the company directorship changed in the early '90's.
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Richard C. Wolfe
Master Film Handler
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From: Northampton, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-02-2003 12:50 AM
Radio City Music Hall was the largest seating capacity movie theatre in America. It is seldom used as a movie theatre any longer. Only for special films on rare occasions. But I thought the question here was "What is the largest mutiplex"? Radio City is and has always been a single screen theatre. By the way, Radio City was not built to be a movie theatre. It was one of three theatres constructed in the Rockefeller Center project. Radio City which claimed 6,200 seats at it's opening was intended for all live productions of music and spectacle. The RKO Roxy (not to be confused with the other famous New York Roxy)later renamed the Center with 3,509 seats opened with movies and smaller stage shows. Both of these theatres were managed by theatrical impresario Samuel Lionel(Roxy)Rothafel. The opening stage show at the Music Hall was such a disaster that within several months movies were added to the bill. When Roxy left the original Roxy which also claimed 6,200 seats at it's opening (but had less), he took his name with him and gave it to the other Radio City theatre. The Fox interests that controlled the old Roxy sued saying it owned the Roxy name. Fox won, and the RKO Roxy became the RKO Center Theatre, being named for it's location in Rockefeller Center.
Radio City Music hall is still a theatre all the time, it's just not a movie theatre all the time.
Now what IS the largest multiplex theatre? And are we talking about total seat count or number of auditoriums?
[ 08-03-2003, 01:48 AM: Message edited by: Richard C. Wolfe ]
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