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Going to “the show” was a genuine event each week for moviegoers from 1910 up to about 1960, an evening out for which they dressed in suit and tie, hat and gloves and kept their children quiet. The movie palaces were the settings for dreams, fantasy and romance on-screen and came to match the splendour of the films themselves. Exotic architecture from Egypt, China, baroque and rococo France and Italy, and Imperial Rome, often with ceilings depicting the night skies across which the stars actually moved, became the inspiration for vast auditoriums. There were the great art deco and streamlined visions, all fitted out to make the ordinary mortal feel like a king or queen. This course will explore the picture palaces from their beginnings to their decline in the age of TV and shopping malls, and include film clips and photographs.