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  • <p>Moonee Theatre 11 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, VIC.</p>
            
              <p>Proscenium*</p>
            
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  • <p>Hoyts Circle Theatre 519 High Street, Preston, VIC - Atmospheric</p>
            
              <p>Photo - Adrian Crothers</p>
            
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  • <p>Close up of side wall detail</p>
  • <p>Ornate auditorium ceiling</p>
  • <p>Paramount Toledo Theatre, Toledo, OH in 1929</p>
  • <p>Aerial view of the Century Drive-In.
              There is a curved Cinerama screen in front of the regular screen. May, 1964. Photo and copy courtesy of Robert Juzefski.</p>
  • <p>Full width version of the 1932 photo.</p>
  • <p>Auditorium views and brief description (1932)</p>
  • <p>METRO THEATER ( Later The Mayfair ) 167 Collins Street, Melbourne, Vic Australia – Glass theatre slide.</p>
            
              <p>A policy slide that was screened at every performance, to remind audiences that they were in a Metro theatre and were about to see a quality Metro production.</p>
            
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  • <p>On grand opening night in August of 2020</p>
  • <p>Opening night of the Galaxy</p>
  • <p>Auditorium from stage end showing some existing seating from cinema days.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 7/17/67.</p>
  • <p>Entrance foyer in 1954.</p>
  • <p>Night view, September 1954</p>
  • <p>Foyer & stairs leading to balconies. 1931</p>
  • <p>The sliding roof was a feature of the orginal live theatre. It was maintained for some years after the theatre was converted for movies.</p>
  • <p>70mm projection at the Monroe Theatre booth in 1960 with Norelco projectors and Constellation arc lamps.</p>
  • <p>At the end of the 1953 season, Motor-Vu operators Eric and Carl Peterson and are seen here here in front o their converted 105 foot wide CinemaScope compatible screen made of Transite and in Raytone white relaunching March 19, 1954 with β€œThe Robe.”</p>
  • <p>In a “all or nothing” move, the Romantic Motor Vu became the first US Drive In to install Cinemascope.</p>