Exploring the World of Movie Theaters Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania.

the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne was once described as "the best cinema that was ever built or is ever likely to be built".

the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater, residence, cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel.

the Megaria (pictured), a historic movie theater in Jakarta, Indonesia, is the city's largest remaining Art Deco building.

the congregation of St. Luke's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Katonah, New York, met in a warehouse and movie theater before the church was built.

the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite.

Parkmill in Gower, South Wales, is now the home of La Charrette, the smallest cinema in Wales (pictured).

Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul, Korea.

Film & Kino, which organizes municipal-owned cinemas in Norway, also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.

Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar.

Marcus Loew, whose family's poverty forced him to give up on schooling and go to work at age nine, became the owner of the largest chain of movie theaters in the United States and the founder of MGM Studios.

Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards.

Exploring the World of Movie Theaters

1 In the 1980s the introduction of ________ cassettes made possible video-salons, small rooms where visitors viewed the film on a large TV.

2 Sometimes movie theaters provide digital projection of a live ________ of an opera, concert, or other performance or event.

3 Admission to a movie may also be restricted by a ________.

4 Hotlips adult theater ________, for 55 euro/month

5 Drive-in movie theatres are mainly found in the ________, where they were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

6 However, the introduction of the low-cost ________ video system for home televisions has decommissioned many porno cinemas as well as many 'second-run' theatres.

7 Outside of ________, most English-speaking countries use the term cinema (pronounced /ˈsɪnɨmə/, but formerly spelt "kinema" and pronounced /ˈkɪnɨmə/).

8 Films are sometimes also shown on trains, such as the ________.

9 The million dollar Mark Strand Theater at 47th Street and Broadway in ________ opened in 1914 by Mitchell Mark was the archetypical movie palace.

10 These forms morphed into a unique architectural genre—the ________—a unique and extreme architectural genre which boasted a luxurious design, a giant screen, and, beginning in 1953, stereophonic sound.

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