{"id":73328,"date":"2026-05-11T02:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fade-to-black-inside-the-uss-abandoned-movie-theatres\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:56:28","slug":"fade-to-black-inside-the-uss-abandoned-movie-theatres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fade-to-black-inside-the-uss-abandoned-movie-theatres\/","title":{"rendered":"Fade to black: inside the US\u2019s abandoned movie theatres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grand music halls and theatres of the 1920s gave way to the era of the moving image, prompting the acquisition, conversion of lavish cinemas across the US \u2013 many of which became enduring cultural landmarks. From the rise of television in the 1950s to today\u2019s streaming platforms and smartphone screens, media consumption has become individualised. As a result, many of these once-grand movie theatres have been abandoned, repurposed or left suspended as hybrid ruins. Photographers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marchandmeffre\/\">Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre<\/a> have documented these early 20th-century relics and the haunting beauty of their decline<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Exhibited at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyotographie.jp\/en\/\">Kyotogrophie 2026<\/a> in Japan until 17 May<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/may\/11\/fade-to-black-inside-us-abandoned-cinemas-movie-theaters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand music halls and theatres of the 1920s gave way to the era of the moving image, prompting the acquisition, conversion of lavish cinemas across the US \u2013 many of which became enduring cultural landmarks. From the rise of television in the 1950s to today\u2019s streaming platforms and smartphone screens, media consumption has become &#8230; <a title=\"Fade to black: inside the US\u2019s abandoned movie theatres\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fade-to-black-inside-the-uss-abandoned-movie-theatres\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fade to black: inside the US\u2019s abandoned movie theatres\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}