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A movie theater or movie theater (also called a cinema) is a venue, usually a building, that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies or motion pictures), for entertainment.

Most, but not all, movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket.

Some movie theaters, however, are operated by non-profit organizations or societies which charge members a membership fee to view films.

Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film.

Whereas traditional film reels had to be shipped to movie theaters, a digital movie can be distributed to cinemas in a number of ways: over the Internet or dedicated satellite links or by sending hard drives or optical discs such as Blu-ray discs.

Digital movies are projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional film projector.

Digital cinema is distinct from high-definition television and is not dependent on using television or high-definition video standards, aspect ratios, or frame rates.

In digital cinema, resolutions are represented by the horizontal pixel count, usually 2K (2048×1080 or 2.2 megapixels) or 4K (4096×2160 or 8.8 megapixels).

As digital cinema technology improved in the early 2010s, most of the theaters across the world converted to digital.

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the city's historical birthplace.

The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York.

The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the East, Hudson, and Harlem rivers, and also includes several small adjacent islands and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood on the U.S. mainland.

35 mm film (millimeter) is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography (see 135 film).

The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 34.98 ±0.03 mm (1.377 ±0.001 inches) wide.

The standard negative pulldown for movies ("single-frame" format) is four perforations per frame along both edges, which results in 16 frames per foot of film.

For still photography, the standard frame has eight perforations on each side.

This article is mainly concerned with still photography film.

For motion picture film, please see film stock.