A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is any of the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930. With the advent of television, movie attendance dropped, while the rising popularity of large multiplex chains in the 1980s and 1990s signaled the obsolescence of single-screen theaters. Many movie palaces were razed or converted into multiple-screen venues or performing arts centers, though some have undergone restoration and reopened to the public as historic buildings.
There are three architectural design types of movie palaces: the classical-style movie palace, with opulent, luxuriousarchitecture; the atmospheric theatre, which has an auditoriumceiling that resembles an open sky as a defining feature; and the Art Deco theaters that became popular in the 1930s.
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