Some more data on the Chic Theatre, http://www.cinemadata.org/theaters-buildings/Maine/ChicTheater/Milo/
The Milo Historical Society has a photo of an audience in their seats, main floor and balcony.
Reply to Joe Vogel, above: Thank you for linking to Moving Image Review scans (the Northeast Historic Film—NHF newsletter, published 1988-2007).
The work on the Alamo Theatre was by Terry Rankine (1927-2013), then living in Owls Head, Maine; and John Gordon, Bucksport architect. Rankine, an NHF board member, had an eminent architectural career at Cambridge Seven Associates. He provided the concept for wrapping NHF’s moving image archiving study center and conservation activities around a 125-seat auditorium. His foam core model is a treasured artifact at the archives.
Rankine then figured out how to appropriately add a three-story cold storage building, purpose built for storing analog media, to the 1916 cinema.
www.oldfilm.org
Empire Theatre, 10 Oak Street, was managed by Fred M. Eugley, according to Sanborn’s City of Rockland Directory, 1912. In 1921 A.G. Packard was the manager (Julius Cahn-Gus Hill directory, 1921.) For more information, see http://www.cinemadata.org/theaters-buildings/Maine/EmpireTheater/Rockland/
Some more data on the Chic Theatre, http://www.cinemadata.org/theaters-buildings/Maine/ChicTheater/Milo/ The Milo Historical Society has a photo of an audience in their seats, main floor and balcony.
Reply to Joe Vogel, above: Thank you for linking to Moving Image Review scans (the Northeast Historic Film—NHF newsletter, published 1988-2007).
The work on the Alamo Theatre was by Terry Rankine (1927-2013), then living in Owls Head, Maine; and John Gordon, Bucksport architect. Rankine, an NHF board member, had an eminent architectural career at Cambridge Seven Associates. He provided the concept for wrapping NHF’s moving image archiving study center and conservation activities around a 125-seat auditorium. His foam core model is a treasured artifact at the archives.
Rankine then figured out how to appropriately add a three-story cold storage building, purpose built for storing analog media, to the 1916 cinema.
www.oldfilm.org
Empire Theatre, 10 Oak Street, was managed by Fred M. Eugley, according to Sanborn’s City of Rockland Directory, 1912. In 1921 A.G. Packard was the manager (Julius Cahn-Gus Hill directory, 1921.) For more information, see http://www.cinemadata.org/theaters-buildings/Maine/EmpireTheater/Rockland/
Home page for Northeast Historic Film, the organization that owns the Alamo Theatre and runs a moving iamge archives there, www.oldfilm.org
Background on the Alamo Theatre
http://www.oldfilm.org/nhfWeb/visit/visitAlamo.cfm
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