Pearl Theater
2047 Ridge Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19121
2047 Ridge Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19121
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The Pearl Theater, designed by J.K. Long, opened in 1927 and closed in 1963.
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Reality is that theaters advertise digital projection. Below is from Fandago, for (Regal) United Artists King of Prussia, from googling-
11:45am I 2:15 I 4:45 I 7:15 I 9:40
Deja Vu
PG-13 • 2 hr. 8 min.
Click on RED SHOWTIMES to Buy Tickets
DLP (Digital Projection) Showtimes More Info >
1:10 I 4:10 I 7:25 I 10:35
Theaterbuff can copy & paste the 1st time the Pearl does the same, if the Pearl has digital movie projectors!
It just so happens that Deja Vu was the first movie shown at the all new Pearl, while we know from the info Mr. Haas has provided us with that this movie was released in digital cinema format. That doesn’t prove that the new Pearl has digital projection, of course, but it does present the possibility. Meantime, I’m awaiting to hear back confirmation that the Pearl has digital projection, and when I get confirmation — either way — I’ll post it here.
That movie is one of 8 movies now at the Pearl. It is also being shown in many other Philadelphia area theaters. Like the Pearl, most aren’t showing it in digital projection. Newspapers aren’t always accurate.
Actually the day before the complex opened, there were test screenings in which movies were shown for one dollar. There were actually 8 movies, including Deja Vu.
Perhaps that can be verified here as well.
Also, this new complex is located on North Broad Street near Cecil B Moore Blvd. It’s across from my alma mater, Temple University. So this isn’t the one on Ridge Avenue just reopening.
The theatre has only been open for a few weeks.
Reality check:
rg, when you say the all new Pearl is a “very plan looking theatre,” do you mean “plain” rather than “plan,” that is, that it’s a very “plain” looking theater, or that it’s a very well “planned” out looking theater? For in the one or two photos I’ve seen of it so far it looks to me like it’s very well planned out and hardly plain. So if you could just please clarify I’d very much appreciate it. Thanks!
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Sorry about the long delay, everyone, but I just received confirtmation today, Dec. 19, 2006 — a bit to my disappointment and I’m sure to Mr. Haas’s and everyone else’s as well — that the all new Pearl Theatre, named in honor of the former, does not have digital projection. Apparently the Philadelphia Inquirer was given not quite correct information in the excitement of the theater’s newness, digital projection having been confused with digital sound, which the all new Pearl Theatre does have. So in terms of a Philadelphia first, having digital projection still remains open.
Here is an expanded view of one of the PAB thumbnails posted by Lost Memory on 11/30/04. The photo is from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/23s5od
This is a circa 1942 photo of the Pearl Theater.
From the aeriel google photos it looks like the Pearl theatre (the original one) has been razed – just an empty lot now.
Here is an August 1976 photo from Temple U:
http://tinyurl.com/ykfqf6u