page_title: Arlington Theatre
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Arlington Theatre / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara, CA. These are the doors into the theater. No photos are allowed inside.
context_page_description: The Arlington Theatre is the largest movie theater and principal performing arts venue in Santa Barbara, California, United States. In addition to regular screenings and artists, it is home to many events associated with the annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
context_section_description: The Arlington was designed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles in a period when Santa Barbara was being rebuilt in that style following a powerful earthquake in 1925. The exterior has a Mission Revival steeple that ends in an art deco finial.
  The red tiled building features a covered courtyard with fountain and a free-standing ticket booth.
  The interior is elaborately decorated. The ceilings of the lobbies are heavily beamed and painted.  The auditorium itself seats 2,018 on the main floor and balcony.
  It is built to give theatergoers the impression that they are sitting outside in the plaza of a colonial Spanish town, each wall features houses, staircases, and balconies, not painted on but built out from the walls.
  The proscenium, in the original theater, was formed by what appeared to be a large stone arc, through which could be seen a river and hills (these were painted on the curtain.)  Today, this effect is gone, and the proscenium is topped by the equipment necessary for lighting stage shows.  The original ceiling remains to give patrons the impression that they are sitting outdoors under the stars.
  One of the Arlington's signature features is a Robert Morton pipe organ from the Loew's Jersey Theatre that was installed in 1949. Hidden below the orchestra floor, the organ's console rises on a platform into view when played at a performance.
  The Arlington Theatre was designed by the Santa Barbara architectural firm of Edwards and Plunkett.
caption: Doors into the theater.
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