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A movie theater, called a cinema in Commonwealth English and also known as a movie house, cinema hall or picture house, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films and occasionally a series premiere, special episode or series finale of a popular television series for public entertainment. The cited article says most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing tickets, and that the film is projected with a movie projector onto a large screen. It is the cinema half of the combined cinema and theatre value. Buildings recorded in the atlas as cinemas are grouped under this concept.

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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Source Harvard Exit Theatre (Wikipedia)

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Movie Theater
Wikipedia, lead section
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A movie theater (American English) or cinema (Commonwealth English), also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the movies, the pictures, the big screen (colloquialism), or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films and occasionally a series premiere, special episode or a series finale of a popular television series for public entertainment.
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Harvard Exit Theatre (Wikipedia)
Building Type Of: Harvard Exit Theatre, Introduction
Quote, Building Type Of: Harvard Exit Theatre, Introduction
The Harvard Exit Theatre was a cinema located in Seattle, Washington.
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