Life and Death of a Movie Theater, by I. Joseph Hyatt
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The Life and Death of a Movie Theater is the story of the State Theater, a neighborhood movie house in Woodbridge, NJ. The story of the State is the story of many theaters across the United States and around the world. For over 40 years the State was the place to go. Many generations grew up with the State Theater and its staff as a major part of their lives. As Humphrey Bogart once said, it was "the stuff that dreams are made of." Stories of five competing theaters and three drive-ins are also documented to put the State's story into perspective. See what an exhibitor had to do to keep a theater operating through the depression, the war years, the television years and beyond.
Life and Death of a Movie Theater, by I. Joseph Hyatt- Amazon Sales Rank: #1243686 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .65" w x 6.00" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great book for local history and movie theater buffs! By FloridaSun This is a great book packed with photos and illustrations. Several I've never seen before as a local historian of movie houses surrounding Woodbridge Township, NJ. Around 280 pages detailing every minutia of the early days of film theaters, histories and local celebrities up until the 1970's. It's a easy, entertaining and quite interesting read. Money well spent looking forward to reading and rereading it again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Fine Portrait of a Neighborhood Movie House By Eric Schultz This book is both a well-researched history and an affectionate portrait of The State Theater, which operated in the town of Woodbridge, NJ, from 1927 to 1969. The author gives us a good look at how millions of people got their entertainment before television and the era of a multiplex theaters. The book tells the story of this and of other small movie theaters which operated in the same area during that time. We see how the theater got started, offerring live entertainment and movies, and it takes us through the years of the transition to sound film, the Great Depression and the time of WWII. This theater was a part of the community, renting out space for offices and small businesses, and participated in local events, such as scrap metal drives for the war effort. We see how the State Theater had to deal with the coming of television and also the development of drive-ins and the big multiplex theatres, which ultimately drove most small neighborhood theaters like the State out of business. The old type of small movie houses, made in the middle of business districts in the 1920s, with limited parking, had a tough time in competing with the new multiplexes, which were built with large parking lots. Also, the multiplexes gave audiences a number of different movies to choose from, bringing in more and more people, while the small neighborhood houses could only afford to show one or two movies in the same week.I.J. Hyatt gives us a narrative which takes us through these decades from the Roaring '20s to the end of the '60s. We see the many changes of the theater's management and programming style, and the author takes us into the projection booth and other aspects of the business. We get to "meet" individuals who worked at the theater, and we see the lists of movies and live shows, plus the many ways that these were advertized locally. The author also gives us some of his own memories of the place, and so the book is more personal than simply a work of research. I enjoyed reading the book, and found it quite interesting.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating slice of Americana By Jordan R. Young This is the story not only of the State Theater in Woodbridge NJ but the good old neighborhood movie theater in Anytown, USA...and very possibly your own. It's the story of how they survived the transition from silent movies to talkies, the Depression, World War II and television. Fascinating stuff not only for anyone interested in movies or theater, but American history or pop culture.
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