Historic projectors used to show movies for eight decades at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda could be headed for history's dustbin, to be replaced by more modern and easier to use equipment.

Inside the projection hut at the Fairlee Drive-In Theater sits a piece of history. It’s a bulky, 35-millimeter carbon-arc projector from the 1950s, still wired in beside the newer model that owner ...

As the Cape Cinema opens for its 76th season, audiences may notice the biggest change only after the lights go down. For the first time in the cinema's history, films will be projected using xenon arc ...

Tucked in a corner off the lobby at the Douglass Theatre, a long-retired cinema relic beams no more. A carbon-arc film projector from the 1940s, put out to pasture as a showpiece, harkens to an era ...

BARKHAMSTED >> The Pleasant Valley Drive-In may have its modern touches, such as the digital projector that replaced the circa 1930s carbon arc projectors, 99 sheets of fresh plywood on the movie ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The license plate on movie projectionist Arnie Herdendorf's Buick is 35MM MAN, a nod to his work in the booth at the 1925 Palace Theatre, with its velvet-draped stage and chandeliered ...

When audiences thrilled to the 1903 movie The Great Train Robbery, very few of those early theaters were air conditioned. The temperature in the projection booth made life a living hell for the ...