Peery's Egyptian Theater
2415 Washington Boulevard,
Ogden,
UT
84401-2315
2415 Washington Boulevard,
Ogden,
UT
84401-2315
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Built in 1924, Peery’s Egyptian Theater was constructed to give the audience the feeling of sitting between two Egyptian buildings with a blue plaster ceiling, which in the early days had projected dawns, sunsets and night sky images. The theatre closed in 1984. In 1997 it reopened, restored. Conrad Schmidtt Studios restored the original interior colors. Still showing movies, the theater has been restored to all of its original beauty.
Each January it serves as a satellite site to the Sundance Film Festival, based in Park City, Utah. It is used at other times for a live performance arts series and 5 or 6 film screenings a season, as well as a rental to arts or non-arts groups.
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Here is a recent photo of the Egyptian Theater.
Some photos of the Egyptian Theater can be seen at this website. Click each photo to expand it.
This is Utah’s most fabulous theater left no holds barred! For film projection the booth is equipped with a German made Ernemann 16/35mm projector and Sony DFP-3000 digital sound processor. Stage speakers are JBL 4675 with JBL Dual 18" subs. The speakers are all on movable stands to aid in storage off stage during live shows. The screen is 50 feet wide.
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Very nice!!!!
Great looking pictures,Chuck 1231.
Small photo of marquee on election day, Boxoffice magazine, December 16, 1950:
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My firm belief is that NO cinema or theater is complete without at least one set of working curtains. As my old boss in England told me when I was an apprentice projectionist… “Lad, it’s the magic of what is behind the curtains that keeps the audience in a state of excitement for the show to begin”. I also learned that the timing of the curtains closing on time was to never to reveal a blank screen! “Now that” he concluded “spells professionalism” and I’ve never forgotten my training.
RIGHT ON, Simon! I completely agree about curtains and NEVER showing a blank screen. During my childhood in the late 60s, through the 70s, and into the 80s, I don’t recall ever seeing a blank screen. It was in some homespun tiny art theatres in the 80s that I first came to walk into some little auditoriums with no curtains. But even then, there were soft lights on the screen—sometimes colored—aimed at the screen until the show started.