picture house

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Surely the Ritz Cinema is the theater Herriot describes as he begins his courtship of Helen Alderson; a blue circle marker proudly declares its date of establishment as a picture house, 1912.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

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

I remember my late father taking myself and a good friend to Birmingham picture house to see the film, my first visit to a picture house.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2012

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

I told Wyatt Gosnell that I wasn’t gonna set a toe in his motion picture house until he could start showin’ some family entertainment.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy