The Victory Theatre videos were very interesting !! I spent a good am't of time there in the 1940's and 50's. I knew it was the most beautiful theatre in the area. The other six in the city and even the Paramount in Spfld. Calvin in Northampton, etc. etc. didn't come close to the magnificence of it. I know the lighting was an issue, but I wish the camera person would have shown more of what was being described than focusing most of the time on the narrator.
At about 6:20 you'll hear it stated that the Victory went through several stages of use in it's lifetime, from a live theater to mixed use to movies only by the 1930's and '40's. This is absolutely incorrect. The Victory Theater was designed from the very beginning as a motion picture palace. Theaters like this were referred to as "presentation houses". They showed the latest new films with some live acts in between the feature and short subjects. The live part of the show became only intermittent after the development of "talkies" in the late 1920's, and was totally gone by the early 1940's.
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The Victory Theatre videos were very interesting !! I spent a good am't of time there in the 1940's and 50's. I knew it was the most beautiful theatre in the area. The other six in the city and even the Paramount in Spfld. Calvin in Northampton, etc. etc. didn't come close to the magnificence of it. I know the lighting was an issue, but I wish the camera person would have shown more of what was being described than focusing most of the time on the narrator.
Still waiting, still hoping they can open this
At about 6:20 you'll hear it stated that the Victory went through several stages of use in it's lifetime, from a live theater to mixed use to movies only by the 1930's and '40's. This is absolutely incorrect. The Victory Theater was designed from the very beginning as a motion picture palace. Theaters like this were referred to as "presentation houses". They showed the latest new films with some live acts in between the feature and short subjects. The live part of the show became only intermittent after the development of "talkies" in the late 1920's, and was totally gone by the early 1940's.