picture house

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He said the charity was working with Jockey Club Estates to develop plans to turn the old horseracing museum into a three-screen boutique picture house.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

A 100-seater cinema in the back of a lorry has opened in a town that has not had a picture house for decades.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

Jim Dummett, of the Lost Picture Show, a replica of a classical picture house enclosed in a festival-ready tent, agrees.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2011

The last ticket stub at London's legendary picture house was torn 18 years ago, but like the zombies that often haunted its screen, its influence on movie culture refuses to die.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2011

“In every moving picture house in America little children would have the pleasure of seeing stories acted by the Popper Performing Penguins,” he said.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater