LITERATURE STUDY:

WHAT IS A MULTIPLEX ?
 A multiplex is a movie theatre complex with multiple screens within a single
complex. They are usually housed in a specially designed building.

FIRST EVER MULTIPLEX :

 The first theatre in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures was
the Nickelodeon, which was opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Penn.
 In November 1988, Cinepolis Brussels opened with 25 screens, and is often credited
as being the first "megaplex".
 On December 30, 1996, AMC Ontario Mills 30, a 30-screen theatre, opened in
Ontario, California, and became the theatre with the most screens in the world.
The World's Largest Cinemas. Cinepolis Madrid has 25 screens, and can sit 9,200
viewers. Cinepolis Madrid, based in Spain, holds the title of the largest cinema
Complex in the world

A HISTORY OF FILMS IN INDIA

THE ORIGIN OF THEATERS IN INDIA:

• The first cinema halls, commonly known as ‘film theatres’ or ‘picture
palaces,’ were constructed in the European-dominated business districts,
against the backdrop of a burgeoning freedom movement against colonial
occupation.
• The first permanent cinema hall in India in 1907, the Elphinstone Picture Palace in
Calcutta, and the 1997 opening of the multiplex PVR Anupam in Delhi.
• So film theatres continued to be built, despite the active discouragement of
the colonial government.
• The latter refers to the two types of picture-houses – one that exclusively showed
“Western films” catering to Europeans, Anglo-Indians and educated Indians, and
the other which
catered wholly to native Indian audiences, showing a mix of “Western” and Indian
films
The number of “permanent working cinema-houses”, all concentrated in the