{"id":24433,"date":"2022-11-07T01:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24433"},"modified":"2022-11-06T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T03:08:55","slug":"the-last-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-last-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"the last movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24434\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Fade-out-...-22The-March-of-Time22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24434\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Fade-out-...-22The-March-of-Time22-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowes&#8217;s theatre in Brooklyn after it quit showing movies &#8211; courtesy of Matt Lambros<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0The digital era brought with it amazing television, incredible cameras, smartphones with a multitude of devices built-in, digital movies sent by internet or satellite, and much, much, more.<\/p>\n<p>It also hastened the demise of antiquated infrastructure such as old movie houses, hard copy books, newspapers, magazines, film, snail mail, etc. some of which still function, but in a much reduced capacity.<\/p>\n<p>One sad example of movie houses is this shot of the Lowe&#8217;s theatre on <a href=\"http:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/902\">46th Street in Brooklyn<\/a>, NY. The theatre was first opened in late fall, 1927 for Universal Pictures. A year later it became part of the Lowe&#8217;s Theatre chain \u00a0under a new name. When Lowe&#8217;s bailed, it became part of the Brandt chain and showed movies up to late 1969 &#8211; long before the impact of digital technology.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlambrosphotography.com\">Matt Lambros<\/a> is an architectural photographer and author based in Boston.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ttbook.org\/people\/matt-lambros\">A graduate of Boston University<\/a>, Matt chose to record the abandoned movie theatres in America in an effort to have some restored and repurposed.<\/p>\n<p>We have had speakers from time to time who recorded some of the abandoned technologies of yesteryear both here and abroad. Hard to imagine in today&#8217;s super heated real estate market, but \u00a0often abandonment was cheaper than the cost of removal and disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the title of this post is a riff on a 1971 &#8216;coming of age movie&#8217; called, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Picture_Show\">&#8220;The Last Picture Show<\/a>&#8220;. The Lowe&#8217;s photo is courtesy of my good friend George Dunbar and his diligent work researching items of photographic history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0The digital era brought with it amazing television, incredible cameras, smartphones with a multitude of devices built-in, digital movies sent by internet or satellite, and much, much, more. It also hastened the demise of antiquated infrastructure such as old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-last-movie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[183,716,4223,93,4207,613,5,466],"class_list":["post-24433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-american","tag-author","tag-brooklyn","tag-movie","tag-person","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24437,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions\/24437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}