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

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