Predating multiplex movie theatres, neighborhood theatres were the colloquial name given to smaller movie theatres located in local neighborhoods, as opposed to the large

movie palace A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is any of the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 192 ...

s located in

downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district ...

areas. Neighborhood theatres were mostly

discount theater Discount theaters, also known as dollar theaters, dollar movies, second-run theaters, and sub-run theaters, are movie theaters that show motion pictures for reduced prices after those films depart first-run theaters. Originally, they would receiv ...

s and typically showed films after their first run at cheaper prices, often

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s. However, because of their size, they would usually show

reduction print There are two different meanings for the term reduction print. In cinema it is a film print reduced in size, typically for showing in smaller cinemas. In printmaking it is a (rather uncommon) form of colour printing by working the same block (so ...

s of films shot in such larger-sized formats such as

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, or Ultra Panavision.

References

* Fernett, Gene ''Hollywood's Poverty Row'' Laura Books; June 1973 Cinemas and movie theaters {{theatre-stub

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