The Picture House Podcast: Recent Episodes
Kate Scott
The Picture House Podcast focuses on the architecture, design, and history of America’s early cinemas. Kate Scott (a former architectural historian and avid old Hollywood fan), tells the stories of these places and people in an effort to explore their place in our collective memory and our communities today. Look for new episodes on Mondays!
Today we profile a second theater by Robert Boller: Jacksonville, Illinois' New Illinois.
Following up on our series on the Boller Brothers, this is the first of two bonus episodes that looks at a theater designed solely by Robert Boller. First up: St. Louis' Esquire.
To close out our series on the Boller Brothers, let's look at two of their Art Deco houses from the 1930s.
The Bollers designed many theatres in the Spanish Colonial style. We'll look at two of them in this episode!
Today's episode touches on two very different theatres, which have experienced two very different fates.
In this, the third episode in our series on the Boller Brothers, we'll look at their middle American Moorish masterpiece.
The first episode in a six-part series on the Boller Brothers, movie theatre architects who were particularly prolific in the 1920s in the Midwest.
Alas, this is the last episode of our movie palace series. We'll learn about the waning popularity of the movie palace, and look at a couple of Art Deco theatres that closed out the picture palace era.
This episode explores the magnificent 'Wonder Theatres' designed and built for the Loew's chain in the late 1920s.
This episode, part seven in our series on the movie palace, is full of alliteration! We're looking at the productive pairing of Priteca and Pantages.
In the sixth episode in our movie palace series, we're talking about two of Hollywood's most famous theatres.
This episode, the fifth in our series on movie palaces, explores a few of the movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles.
For the fourth episode in our movie palace series, we're talking about Chicago theatre owners Balaban & Katz, and their architects of choice, Rapp & Rapp.
For the third episode in our movie palace series, we're looking at the master of the atmospheric, architect John Eberson.
In the second episode in our movie palace series, we're looking at eminent movie palace architect Thomas Lamb.
This is the first episode in our series on the movie palace, those crazy opulent, grander-than-grand temples of 1920s moviegoing.
Getch yer glass on. Pigmented structural glass, that is. Today we're talking about the smooth, shiny stuff that bedecked main street and neighborhood theatres from the 1930s.
In this episode, we revisit William Wilder and take a look at the final theatre constructed under his direction.
In this episode, we'll look at Fox's attempt to bring assembly line production to theatre construction in the post-World War II era.
In this episode, we'll look at how even utilitarian military buildings had a place in the history of movie theatre design.
In this episode, we'll talk about some of the things that made theaters cozy and inviting, that let patrons know a comfortable atmosphere was waiting for them: air conditioning, seating, and cry rooms.
In this episode, we’ll talk about several newsreel theaters that were done for the Trans-Lux Corporation by well-known theater architect Thomas Lamb.
In this episode, we'll talk about the ultra mod Cooper Cinerama Theatres of Denver, Minneapolis, and Omaha.
Be sure to check out the Denver Public Library's awesome digitized blueprint of the original theatre's main floor:
https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/91138/rec/33
This episode explores one of the most distinctive theaters in the Upper Midwest, and possibly the country.
In this episode we'll look at the Visulites, a mini-chain of theaters in Virginia and North Carolina.
This episode is the fourth and final episode in our miniseries on the Wilder Theaters of Tidewater Virginia. We’ll look at Wilder’s final (and possibly finest) theater of the 1930s, the Colley.
This episode is the third in our miniseries on the Wilder Theaters of Tidewater Virginia. We’ll see how Wilder quickly began to expand his business by acquiring existing theaters.
This episode is the second in our miniseries on the Wilder Theaters of Tidewater Virginia. We’ll look at Wilder’s first foray into owning and operating a movie theater, Norfolk’s Newport.
Our first episode EVER, and the first in a miniseries on an early chain of neighborhood theaters in Hampton Roads, Virginia.