Architecture has a huge impact on one’s experience at the theater. Richard Weiss, a movie theater architect for over 25 years, discusses how movie theater design is more than simply the comfort and amenities of the theater. Weiss has designed Alamo Drafthouse locations across the United States and takes us from Thomas Edison’s Vitascope to the contemporary multiplexes of today. Explore the history of movie theater design in the United States for over a century.