{"id":580,"date":"2010-08-18T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-08-18T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:58:16","slug":"golden-era-cinema-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/08\/18\/golden-era-cinema-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Era Cinema At Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the RMS Queen Mary&#8217;s cinema (circa 1936). At the time of the ship&#8217;s launch, the movie theatre was promoted as being &#8220;talkie&#8221; equipped and featuring a &#8220;giant screen&#8221;, for the &#8220;leisurely pleasure&#8221; of first class passengers. While the theatre&#8217;s sound quality remains a matter of conjecture, the &#8220;giant screen&#8221; claim looks to have been a bit of marketing creativity (even by standards of the day).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/QueenMaryCinema.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-581 aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"RMS Queen Mary Cinema\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/QueenMaryCinema-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/QueenMaryCinema-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/QueenMaryCinema-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/QueenMaryCinema.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One can still visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, but the original cinema area was converted to kitchen space shortly after the ship&#8217;s 1967 decommissioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the RMS Queen Mary&#8217;s cinema (circa 1936). At the time of the ship&#8217;s launch, the movie theatre was promoted as being &#8220;talkie&#8221; equipped and featuring a &#8220;giant screen&#8221;, for the &#8220;leisurely pleasure&#8221; of first class passengers. While the theatre&#8217;s sound quality remains a matter of conjecture, the &#8220;giant screen&#8221; claim looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}