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Air Conditioning American Movie Theatres 1917 - 1932

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BOOKS: U.S.THEATRES 1 896 Ventilation and Heating , John S Billings (ice - block cooling Music Hall , pp.372 - 375), Engineering Record 1927 Building Theatre Patronage, J ohn F Barry & Eyes W Sargent: Chapter XXXIII Ventilation , Chalmers 1931 A History of the Movies , Benjamin B Hampton, Covici - Friede 1966 The Oxford Companion to the Theatre , 3 rd Edition, Phyllis Hartnoll, OUP 1979 The Radio City Music Hall , Charles Francisc o, E P Dutton NY 1980 Movie Palaces: Survivors of an Elegant Era , Ave Pildas, Clarkson N Porter 1981 Cathedrals of the Movies , David Atwell, Architectural Press 1981 American Picture Palaces: The Architecture of Fantasy , D Naylor, Prentice Hall 1982 Movie Palaces: Renaissance and Reuse , Joseph M Valero & Daniel Friedman, Edited by Nancy Morison Ambler, Educational Facilities Laboratories Division, Academy for Educational Development/Publishers 1987 The Best Remaining Seats: Golden Age Movie Palac e , Ben M Hall, Da Capo 1987 Great America Movie Theatres , David Naylor, Preservation Press 1991 Ticket to Paradise , Margolies & Gwathmey, Bullfinch 1992 Mechanical & Electrical Systems for Historic Buildings , Gersil Newmark Kay, McGraw - Hill 1992 Shared Ple asures: A History of Movie Presentation in the , Douglas Gomery, University of Wisconsin Press 1994 The Show Starts on the Sidewalk , Maggie Valentine: Yale UP 1994 New York 1930: Theatres , pp. 229 - 270, Robert A M Stern et al, Rizzoli 1997 The Last Remaining Seats : Movie Palaces of Tinseltown, Balcony Press 1997 Lost Theatres , Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, Princeton Architectural Press 1998 Masterpiece: Saving Syracuse’s Loew’s State , Alfred Balk (Ed), Landmark Theatre Foundat ion 1999 Broadway Theatres: History & Architecture , William Morrison, Dover 1999 A History of Comfort Cooling Using Ice, Bernard Nagengast: The First Century of Air Conditioning , ASHRAE, pp. 13 - 20 1999 Early T we ntieth Century Air Conditioning Engineering , Bernard Nagengast : The First Century of Air Conditioning , ASHRAE, pp. 21 - 28 2003 A Classic American Success Story , the NEWS, www.Kroeschell.com 2003 The Southern Movie Palace: Rise Fall and Resurrection , Janna Jones, University Press of Florida 2004 Cinema Treasures , Melnick & Fuchs, MBI 2005 Theatres of (Images of America) , Jack Tillmany, Arcadia 2006 The Movie Palaces of (Images of America), David Balaban, Arcadia Publishing, USA 2006 South Jers ey Movie Houses (Images of America), Allen F Hauss, Arcadia 2006 Theatres of Oakland (Images of America), Tillmany & Dowling, Arcadia 2008 Our Movie Houses: A History of Film & Cinematic Innovation in Central New York, Norman O Keim, Syracuse Uni versity Press 2008 Theatres in (Images of America), Cooper, Hall & Wanamaker, Arcadia 2009 American Theatres of Today , R W Sexton & B F Betts, a reprint of the two original volumes of 1927 and 1930, Liber Apertus Press 2010 M ilwaukee Movie Theatres (Images of American), Larry Widen, Arcadia 2011 Theatres of Hawaii (Images of America) , Lowell Angell, Arcadia 2011 Boston’s Movie Palaces, (Images of America), Singer & Goodman, Arcadia 2012 (), (Image s of America), Janice McDonald, Arcadia 2012 Downtown Chicago’s Movie Theatres , Konrad Schiecke, McFarland 2012 Weathermakers to the World , Carrier/United Technologies: (p.74, Three Million Pounds of Ice for Rockefeller Centre , including Radio C ity Music Hall 2013 Movie Houses of Greater Newark (Images of America) , Philip M Read, Arcadia 2013 Memphis Movie Theatres (Images of America), Vincent Astor, Arcadia 2013 American Movie Palaces , Rolf Achilles, Shire Publications 2014 Cool: How Air Condi tioning Changed Everything , Salvatore Basile Chapter 4 - Coolth: Everybody’s Doing It , Fordham UP 2014 Theatres (Golden Silver Screen), Doug Taylor, Historic Press 2014 Rapp & Rapp: Architects, Charles Edward Rapp, Viburnam Press 2015 A Th eatre History of Marion Ohio , Scott L Hoffman, History Press 2016 Historic Movie Houses of Austin (Images of America), Rittereiser & Miller, Arcadia 2016 When Movies were Theatre , William Paul: Columbia University Press 2016 After the Final Curtain: The Fa ll of the American Movie Theatre , Matt Lambros, Jonglez 2017 Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering ’s Forgotten Movie Theatres , Amy Davis, John Hopkinson UP

BOOKS & PAPERS WITH INFORMATION ON THEATRE AIR CONDITIONING 1916 Development of Carbo n Dioxide Refrigerating Machines , Fred Wittenmeier , Ice and Refrigeration, November 1920 The Ventilation of Large Auditoriums , Ray S M Wilde, Trans. ASHVE 1921 Motion Picture Number : The Weather Vein , Carrier, Vol. 1, No. 8, August 1922 Cooling of Theatre s and Public Buildings , Fred Wittenmeier, Refrigerating Engineering , Vol. 9, No. 4, October 1922 Architecture and Building (magazine), Vol. LIV, January to December 1922 Heating, Ventilating and Cooling Plant of the Tivoli Theatre , Power Plant En gineering , Vol. XXVI, No. 5, Chicago, 1 st March 1923 Grauman’s Metropolitan: The Weather Vein , Carrier, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1923 1925 Theatre Cooling, Carrier Centrifugal Refrigeration & Air Distribution catalogue 1927 Air Conditioning in the Theatre , L L Lewis, Refrigerating Engineering , Vol. 14, No.2, August 1927 Heating, Ventilating and Cooling , American Theatres of Today , pp. 36 - 38: R W Sexton & B F Betts, Vol. I, Liber Apertus Press 1928 Reproduction.. Works of Howard C Crane , p ublisher unknown 1930 Heating and Ventilating a Theatre , Edwin A Kingsley, A merican Theatres of Today , Chapter VII, pp 47 - 49, R W Sexton & B F Betts, Vol. II, Liber Apertus Press 1930 Carbon Dioxide for Theatre Cooling; An Exposition of H ow System Works , A N Chandler, Motion Picture News , 4 th October 1931 Recent Progress in Air Conditioning , Willis H Carrier, Refrigerating Engineering , March 1932 World’s Largest Theatre in Rockefeller (Radio City Music Hall), Popular Mec hanics, pp. 252 - 3, August 1934 What the Refrigeration Machine Companies have contributed, Refrigerating Engineering , December 1936 How to Air Condition a Theatre , Chapter XIII, Practical Air Conditioning , Harold L Alt, Domestic Engineering Co, C hicago 1952 Father of Air Conditioning (Willis Haviland Carrier), Margaret Ingels, Country Life Press, Chapter IX 1990 Let’s Go to the Movies, Brian Roberts, Building Services (CIBSE Journal) , August 1994 Heat & Cold: Mastering the Great Indoors , Barry Donaldson & Bernard Nagengast, ASHRAE, Chapter 11 1998 Air Conditioning America , Gail Cooper, John Hopkins UP, Chapter Four, Motion Picture Theatres and Human Comfort 1999 The Rise and Fall of Carbon Dioxide Systems, William S Bodi nus, ASHRAE Journal, April ------Rockefeller Centre (Challenge of Keeping Cool) , www.calmac/energy - storage - case - study - rockefeller - center 1979 Warner Brothers Present… The Movi e , Issue 1, Orbis 2012 Iconic Property Kept Cool with the Help of Energy - Storage Technology (Rockefeller Centre ), HPAC Engineering, September 2014 America’s Vanishing Historic Movie Theatres , www .slate.com 2016 How Chewing Gum…..and a Desire to Treat the Customer like Royalty influenced the Movie Palace Era , Bob Boin, Marquee magazine , pp. 16 - 26. Theatre Historic Society of America, 2 nd Quarter

MAGAZINES Box Office Exhibition Herald M arquee , Theatre Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio Motion Picture Daily Motion Picture Herald Motion Picture News , New York (1930 - 1930)

MOVIE THEATRES USA : INTERNET SITES h evac - h e r itage .org/electronic books ( Brian Roberts, CIBSE Heritage Group) Buildings & Transport HVAC in Cinemas & Theatres Movie Theatres AC&R Movie Theatres USA Systems & Equipment Comfort AC, Part 6: Theatres Centrifugal Refrigeration

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Movie Theatre Architects C Howard Crane Kirchoff & Rose Herbert J Krapp Hoffman - Henon S Charles Lee Thomas W Lamb B Marcus Priteca John Jacob Zink

Movie Theatre Chains Balaban & Katz Fox The atres Loews Cineplex Entertainment (MGM) Paramount Pictures (Publix) RKO Pictures Warner Bros United States v. Paramount Pictures (antitrust)