Charles Theatre
2217 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
2217 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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Howard
The Charles did have masking and offered scope presentaions, Lady Sings The Blues, Once Is Not Enough and a roadshow engagement of The Lion In Winter in 68.
Actually, the theater would have been on the west side of the street, if I can correct myself. I have lived on the West Coast too long and automatically assume that anything going away from the beach is east.
This theater was on Atlantic Avenue near Columbus Park, if I recall, on the east side of the street.
The Charles was a nice modern theatre that specialized in foreign and
art films. They also showed high profile mainstream films such as The
Godfather. Toward the end of it’s existance the Charles showed mainly
first run Hollywood films. The one thing, if my memory serves me right (I was just a teenager when I saw films there)that I didn’t care for was the theatre’s practice of showing all films at the
aspect ratio of 2:1 regardless of how they were filmed (I do not recall ever seeing the screen masked for different formats). Unfortunately I understand this was a common practice at many AC theatres at that time. If anyone has any more info on the subject of screen masking for proper aspect ratio or the lack of at the Charles or other Atlantic City theatres I’d like to know more.