Richard Weiss has been a movie theatre architect for over 25 years, designing Alamo Drafthouses across the United States. Today on AD he joins us to break down the evolution of theaters from the dawn of commercial motion pictures to the present day.
From the earliest projections featuring Thomas Edison’s Vitascope in converted vaudeville theatres to the contemporary multiplexes we visit now, learn the detailed history of where and how we’ve gone to the cinema for over a century.
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This video originally appeared on Architectural Digest US
