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Rittereiser Susan B. |
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Historic movie houses of Austin / / by Susan B. Rittereiser, Michael C. Miller, and the Austin History Center |
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Charleston, South Carolina : , : Arcadia Publishing, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations |
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Motion picture theaters - Texas - Austin - History |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Entertainment & Performing Arts |
HISTORY - United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) |
PERFORMING ARTS - Theater - History & Criticism |
PHOTOGRAPHY - Subjects & Themes - Regional |
Austin (Tex.) History Pictorial works |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Early cinema -- The palaces -- The Interstate Theater Circuit -- Trans-Texas Theaters, Inc. -- Independents and drive-ins -- Segregation and civil rights -- Whera are they now? -- About the Austin History Center. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Motion pictures came to Austin on October 10, 1896, debuting at the Hancock Opera House. Since then, movies have continued to enchant, entertain, and inform the citizens of the capital of Texas. And, the places the movie houses and theaters where people saw motion pictures played just as important a role in the moviegoing experience as the movies themselves. As the city s population grew and motion picture technology changed, so too did Austin s movie houses, from the first kinetoscope parlor on Congress Avenue to the city s first four-plex, the Aquarius 4, in southeast Austin. While most of these places are long gone, some withstood the test of time and are still showing movies or have been repurposed for other uses. Through the rich archival collections of the Austin History Center, Historic Movie Houses of Austin explores the stories of these important historic spaces and of |
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the lives of those who were connected with them. |
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