"Twin Cities Picture Show offers a fascinating trip through cinematic history, beginning with the first movie showi
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English Pages xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Year 2007;2009
Table of contents :
Feature presentations --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
1. Humble beginnings --
2. Age of elegance --
3. Streamlined --
4. Desperate measures --
5. Fall from grace --
6. Renaissance --
appendix. Minneapolis area movie theaters --
St. Paul area movie theaters --
Twin Cities area drive-in theaters --
Notes --
Selected bibliography --
Index.