Merveille Theatre Description

The Merveille Theatre is located closely at the center of the large city, and there are three theaters near it that present shorts, one reels, or feature films scattered around different parts of the city. It has been in operation since September 4th of 1916, and shows various films every day of the week. On Mondays through Thursdays, the theater would operate from 11am to 11pm, but it would run until 12am on Fridays. On Saturdays and Sundays, it would run from 9am to 11pm. Any person of any age or class is permitted, but the theater is primarily targeting the working class and also the higher class around the city. The screening room’s seats are comprised of 2000 folding seats in total from both first and second floors. The seats, which are made of steel and cushion on the outer layer, are separated into three columns, so that it is convenient for the viewers to find seats quicker. In order to get a better view of the screen from each and every seat, the seating rows are curved slightly inwards, and the floor is slightly sloped. The first row of the seats for instance is approximately 16 feet apart, so that the audience is able to see the full screen without the stage, which is 3 feet above the floor, blocking the bottom part of the screen. For …show more content…
Occasionally, those features are also shown in the weekends, but epic features are prominently presented during the weekends. Since the theater was open on September 4th 1916, D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” was one of the first films that were publically shown that weekend. For shorts, there would always be musical accompaniment from a professional pianist, but for feature films, they would be played by the pianist and some musical accompaniment such as strings and horns, depending on the movie. Epics will be played by featured orchestra, who would be playing at the bottom part of the