A movie theater or cinema, also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the movies, the pictures, the big screen, or simply theater, is a business that contains auditorium
Ptuj City Cinema, Slovenia, opened on 3 March 1897, making it the oldest active movie theater in the world.
Modern theater auditorium, Madrid
Rodgers Theatre, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. This Art Deco-style theater opened in 1949.
The view from the projectionist's booth at Ultimate Palace Cinema in Oxford. The projector is displaying the 1997–2012 Universal Pictures logo.
A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound dev
35 mm movie projector in operation
An early projector and seats from a movie theater
1910s 35mm hand-cranked tinplate toy movie projector manufactured by Leonhard Müller in Nuremberg, Germany
35 mm Kinoton FP30ST movie projector, with parts labeled. (Click thumbnail for larger text.)