{"id":34892,"date":"2016-09-18T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=34892"},"modified":"2016-09-18T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:07:43","slug":"the-end-of-theatoriums-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/the-end-of-theatoriums-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Theatoriums, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coffin-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coffin-600.jpg\" alt=\"coffin-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coffin-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coffin-600-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coffin-600-434x300.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Moving Picture World<\/strong> (February 1908), 135.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DB here:<\/p>\n<p>Vis-\u00e0-vis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/its-all-over-until-the-next-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">the last post<\/a>, all of three hours ago, Alert Reader and arthouse impresario\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/2015\/12\/08\/s-wonderful-new-life-capri\/76919130\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin McCaffery<\/a> sends the above.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s much in the spirit of current jeremiads: Movies and their theatoriums better shape up, or they&#8217;ll be finished&#8211;like bicycles and Ping-Pong.<\/p>\n<p>History is so cool. Full text <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/MPW02-1908-02#page\/n65\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and below. There&#8217;s also a 1908 rebuttal, in the spirit of movies-are-doing-just-fine-thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/MPW02-1908-03#page\/n11\/mode\/2up\/search\/%22coffin+for+the+theatorium%22\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Both courtesy the prodigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/magic-this-lantern\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lantern<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPW-article-700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPW-article-700.jpg\" alt=\"mpw-article-700\" width=\"700\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPW-article-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPW-article-700-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPW-article-700-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving Picture World (February 1908), 135. DB here: Vis-\u00e0-vis the last post, all of three hours ago, Alert Reader and arthouse impresario\u00a0Martin McCaffery sends the above. Actually, it&#8217;s much in the spirit of current jeremiads: Movies and their theatoriums better shape up, or they&#8217;ll be finished&#8211;like bicycles and Ping-Pong. History is so cool. Full text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,40,174,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-criticism","category-global-film-industry","category-hollywood-the-business","category-internet-life","category-movie-theatres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34897,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions\/34897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}