Inside the projection hut at the Fairlee Drive-In Theater sits a piece of history. It’s a bulky, 35-millimeter carbon-arc projector from the 1950s, still wired in beside the newer model that owner ...

Historic projectors used to show movies for eight decades at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda could be headed for history's dustbin, to be replaced by more modern and easier to use equipment.

When audiences thrilled to the 1903 movie The Great Train Robbery, very few of those early theaters were air conditioned. The temperature in the projection booth made life a living hell for the ...

Tucked in a corner off the lobby at the Douglass Theatre, a long-retired cinema relic beams no more. A carbon-arc film projector from the 1940s, put out to pasture as a showpiece, harkens to an era ...

As the Cape Cinema opens for its 76th season, audiences may notice the biggest change only after the lights go down. For the first time in the cinema's history, films will be projected using xenon arc ...

Minnie Slocum sits in The Roxie’s projection booth surrounded by reels, tools, and decades of analog cinema culture. She’s been part of the team since 2019. Photo taken on May 24 at The Roxie Theater ...

The lights in the theater lower and the rumblings of the audience hushes to a silence. The projector starts and within minutes the audience is treated to their first encounter with Bruce, a massive ...

IONIA, Mich. -- It's been a fixture in downtown Ionia since 1931. A staple of sorts...a place to see a first run movie, a place where churches congregate for special events, a place where school plays ...