Samuel Roxy Rothafel
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A showman of the 1920s silent screen era, Samuel Roxy Rothafel was the impresario for many of the great movie palaces such as the Capitol, the Strand, and the self-named Roxy Theater in New York City. Roxy has been credited with many movie presentation innovations including syncing orchestral music to movies (in the silent screen era) and having multiple projectors to effect seamless reel changes. The book The Best Remaining Seats by Ben Hall (1961), gives a good overview of the grand movie palaces of the 1920s and, specifically, of Roxy himself.
Further reading
- Ben M. Hall, The Best Remaining Seats: The Story of the Golden Age of the Movie Palace, Bramhall (1961) hardcover, there are several later editions, but they lack the special colored illustrations of the first edition.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Samuel_Roxy_Rothafel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Roxy_Rothafel, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
