{"id":830,"date":"2011-09-14T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-09-14T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T08:25:28","slug":"cinema-oddity-the-traveling-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2011\/09\/14\/cinema-oddity-the-traveling-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema Oddity: The Traveling Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s oddity comes from a 1938 edition of \u201cPopular Mechanics\u201d. This unique idea involved converting a fifty-five foot commercial truck trailer in to a traveling theatre, as a way to bring movies to rural communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TravelingTheatre.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-831 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Traveling Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TravelingTheatre-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TravelingTheatre-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TravelingTheatre-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TravelingTheatre.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWorld\u2019s First Traveling Theatre\u201d sat sixty people, had a fully functional projection booth, and even featured a small stage for \u201cvaudeville or lectures\u201d.\u00a0 Leaving nothing to chance, there was an on-board generator available for areas lacking accessible power supplies.<\/p>\n<p>While the concept never caught on as a true movie going option, similar mobile theatres still pop up from time to time; usually serving to promote a new technology, service, or product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s oddity comes from a 1938 edition of \u201cPopular Mechanics\u201d. This unique idea involved converting a fifty-five foot commercial truck trailer in to a traveling theatre, as a way to bring movies to rural communities. The \u201cWorld\u2019s First Traveling Theatre\u201d sat sixty people, had a fully functional projection booth, and even featured a small stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-oddities","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}