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the detroit historical society presents detroit
the real story
to try to has always been at the forefront a film exhibition
from the early screenings of the first moving pictures of the former detroit
opera house sounds campus marshes
to the casino theater on monroe street one of north america's earliest venues
devoted to exclusively exhibiting films
detroiters have long enjoyed great movies and great venues in which to view
them
without exaggeration there must have been fifty sixty neighborhood theaters
in detroit
g_p_-one proceeds there all day
for parking
going for five minutes
but this year there were burton parts of the national
leaders in downtown detroit
were initially concentrated along monroe street near campus marshes
and after nineteen nineteen were clustered around grand circus park
throughout the first half of the twentieth century
detroit's residence in joint u_n_ films at majestic downtown movie palaces
many of which were crafted by renowned architects
for those who live far from downtown the expansion of streetcar and later motor
coach lines out woodward crash it michigan and grand river avenue ste pave
the way for the growth of many neighborhood anderly suburban theaters
these cities around the country were spreading our
randy's perimeter as someone became prime spots for
deluxe leaders were administered the fisher
the r_j_r_ or brown
mission there on the side
but these were divided up there were neighborhoods the deaths
downtown theaters and rightly needs
the downtown theaters were
sort of just up the kids in those days it was a place to really go out and one
felt that he had to be
dress properly for the downtown theaters and daily show first runs
the neighborhood theaters would receiving these after they left downtown
and that's what we would go in groups as it's about the cause of this saturday
all the kids from the neighborhood michael on mom's
to the concert
later the realtor
economic and demographic changes of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties
dramatically altered film exhibition in detroit
as well as the movie-going experience
following world war two
residents begin leaving the city for homes in emerging suburban cities
by the mid-nineteen fifties
detroit's once viable streetcar at interven train systems were no more
as individuals relied on personal transportation
to transport them to work and to their leisure time activities
during the second half of the twentieth century the movie-going experience
changed significantly
as theater owners utilized gimmicks and new technology to patrons away from
their televisions the dish to the way it was probably the biggest again
that act that i can recall i'm sure there were others but
that was a bit
i've been tonight
everybody is fourteen and different very tight
if some if one of the women would drop the gate force that would ban on the
floor with them
big question
everybody would client
but i wasn't married at that time so if i happen to like it like i didn't take
the danish
well that was practically sacrilegious
if you were all maybe interrupted along with it
in detroit
fewer people venture downtown for a movie and suburban cinema sprang up
throughout the region
downtown movie palaces either closed or were forced into showing genre films
including kung fu
and slasher film
efforts to preserve and restore detroit's movie palaces were well
underway
with the reopening of the fox theatre at efforts to restore the redford theater
many neighborhoods cinemas were closed as patrons increasingly visited
multiplexes operated by large theater chains
detroit the real story showcases the rich history of detroit's vast network
of theaters
large and small chains and independence ethnic and specialty venues
and little-known cinemas
from the early part of the twentieth century through today's multiplexes
the exhibit also explore some of the extras from popcorn to three-d_ glasses
that made the movie going experience so memorable for millions of patrons
you have that experience that's outside the home and it's a communal experience
the film takes on a very very
different quality
and i think there has to be a difference in our industry between what is film
and what is television
and
and i think that that's certainly something will be lost if these things
galway
and i think that
we have a chance to go back to something and the people
really enjoying and and and make it new and fresh and better
uh... and also um...
no bring back some memories and some people including the experience for for
another generation
the detroit historical society presents
detroit
real story
enjoyed the show