The Fox

Fox theater sign; North Platte, NE... more

by Sylvia Thornton

Title

The Fox

Artist

Sylvia Thornton

Medium

Photograph

Description

Fox theater sign; North Platte, NE
The Fox theater lights (Neville Center) downtown North Platte, Nebraska. This was taken after a performance of the Frontier Revue. I also wanted to capture the Pawnee Hotel standing behind the theater since it is one of the few old buildings we have left downtown. This picture and it's lighting look very vintage and nostalgic to me. And I was lucky that the only car parked in front was a PT cruiser which looks like an old car.
Traditionally a movie theater, like a stage theatre, consists of a single auditorium with rows of comfortable seats, as well as a foyer area containing a box office for buying tickets, a counter and/or self-service facilities for buying snacks and drinks, and washrooms. Stage theaters are sometimes converted into movie theatres by placing a screen in front of the stage and adding a projector; this conversion may be permanent, or temporary for purposes such as showing arthouse fare to an audience accustomed to plays. The familiar characteristics of relatively low admission and open seating can be traced to Samuel Roxy Rothafel, an early movie theater impresario. Many of these early theatres contain a balcony, an elevated level across the auditorium above the theater's rearmost seats. The rearward main floor "loge" seats were sometimes larger, softer, and more widely spaced and sold for a higher price.
In conventional low pitch viewing floors the preferred seating arrangement is to use staggered rows. While a less efficient use of floor space this allows a somewhat improved sight line between the patrons seated in the next row toward the screen, provided they do not lean toward one another.

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June 12th, 2013