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Entries from August 2010

Stereo Sound

August 23rd, 2010 Comments Off on Stereo Sound

  And you thought “big sound” was a modern innovation. .   . Pictured above are two Bell Laboratories technicians, showing off one of the sixteen horned speakers that was utilized during a series stereophonic sound demonstrations held in the late 1930’s. Initially used to showcase musical performances, the technology was adapted to motion pictures […]

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Ultrastar Takes On The Gardenwalk 14

August 20th, 2010 Comments Off on Ultrastar Takes On The Gardenwalk 14

Anaheim’s Gardenwalk theatre is scheduled to reopen under the management of San Diego based Ultrastar Cinemas today (8/20). The former Sanborn/Movie Experience Cinemafusion had been tied up in rather contentious bankruptcy proceedings, after investors lost an estimate $5 million on the theatre, with much of the venue closed and partially stripped of fixtures for the […]

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Golden Era Cinema At Sea

August 18th, 2010 Comments Off on Golden Era Cinema At Sea

Today’s photo is of the RMS Queen Mary’s cinema (circa 1936). At the time of the ship’s launch, the movie theatre was promoted as being “talkie” equipped and featuring a “giant screen”, for the “leisurely pleasure” of first class passengers. While the theatre’s sound quality remains a matter of conjecture, the “giant screen” claim looks […]

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Forgotten Americana: A Familiar Story

August 12th, 2010 Comments Off on Forgotten Americana: A Familiar Story

Today’s photos are a departure from our usual Orange County centric content, but retain a personal link for this writer. The pictures, from the Library of Congress collection, depict Pittsfield, Massachusetts’s Capital Theatre (circa 1997), shortly before the venue’s demolition. .               .                  .       The Capital’s history is typical of countless grand single […]

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Back From The Dead: The Brea Plaza 5

August 7th, 2010 Comments Off on Back From The Dead: The Brea Plaza 5

After five years of vacancy and sporadic use as a horror theme attraction, the Brea Plaza 5 has reopened as a cinema. .   I stopped bye the Brea 5 this past week and was pleased to see that the new operators, Tristone Cinemas, have placed a great deal of work in to refurbishing the thirty three year […]

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Laguna’s Many Lynn Theatres

August 3rd, 2010 Comments Off on Laguna’s Many Lynn Theatres

The young man pictured below is Lyndon “Lynn” Aufdenkamp (circa 1916). In addition to having been a prominent figure in Laguna Beach’s early twentieth century development, Mr. Aufdenkamp was also the  city’s first cinema operator and the namesake for all of the movie theatres which have operated in Laguna Beach over the past ninety five years. .   Laguna’s […]

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