movie palace

Japanese: movie palace(英語表記)moviepalace
movie palace

...In the 1910s, feature-length films became commonplace, and movie theaters began to employ their own conductors and small orchestras (the brass bands at Japanese movie theaters were called "jinta"). At that time, large movie theaters called "movie palaces" sprang up one after another in major cities in the United States and Europe, and featured performances by orchestras with several dozen members. (3) The film director would choose the music to accompany the film in advance in consultation with the conductor, and the scores would be attached to the film and sent to the movie theater. ...

From Nickelodeon

...The first movie theater of this name opened in Pittsburgh in November 1905 and was a huge success (it had a capacity of 200 people and the opening film was ES Porter's The Great Train Robbery). Since then, movie theaters have been called by this humorous and popular nickname (it would be something like a "movie theater" in Japan). In the 1920s, along with the movement to elevate movies from mere entertainment to an "art," the heyday of the "nickelodeon" continued until the "movie palace" was built with its deluxe Art Deco architecture and decoration that imitated an opera house. The "Nickelodeon" (1976) is dedicated to this early American "movie manic era."...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "movie palace" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…1910年代には,長編劇映画の興行が一般化し,映画館も指揮者と小管弦楽団(日本の活動小屋の吹奏楽隊は〈ジンタ〉と呼ばれた)を専属させるようになっていた。アメリカやヨーロッパの大都市にそのころ続々と誕生した〈ムービー・パレスmovie palace〉と呼ばれた大映画館では,数十名のオーケストラによる演奏を売物にした。(3)あらかじめ映画監督が指揮者と打ち合わせて伴奏音楽のための選曲をし,その楽譜をフィルムにつけて映画館に送る。…

【ニッケルオデオン】より

…1905年11月にピッツバーグに初めてこの名の映画館が開設して大成功(収容人数は200人。こけら落しの上映作品はE.S.ポーター監督《大列車強盗》であった),以来,映画館はこのユーモラスで庶民的な〈愛称〉で呼ばれるようになり(日本でいえば〈活動小屋〉といったところか),20年代に入って映画を単なる娯楽から〈芸術〉に高める動きと相まって,オペラ劇場をまねたアール・デコ調のデラックスな建築と装飾による〈ムービー・パレスmovie palace〉ができるまでは,〈ニッケルオデオン〉の全盛時代であった。そのような初期のアメリカの〈活動狂時代〉にささげられた《ニッケルオデオン》(1976。…

※「movie palace」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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