The Motion Picture Theater Shape and Effective Visual Reception

B. Schlanger

The shape of the motion picture theater should be determined both in the horizontal and vertical sense, chiefly by certain basic factors of the physiology of the eye and the laws of visual reception. Recognition of these factors in designing the theater produces a theater form of minimal depth, concentrating the seating as much as possible with the vertical dimension. Visual acuity and the subtended angles of the viewed image are analyzed as they affect the theater form.

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Published
1936-02
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J08713