Alhambra Theatre

Alhambra Theatre

The Alhambra Theatre opened January 1913 and was owned and operated by Frank Rembusch. While the first floor of the theatre was designed specifically for exhibition pictures, the second floor housed the offices for the Mirror Screen Company (also known as the Rembusch Screen Co. and the Motion Picture Screen Co.) which created the first mirror screen. The screen was distributed globally and greatly improved the clarity and quality of the film. Rembusch would later go on to be the president of Motion Picture Congress of America, a group that represented independent film exhibitors and fought against block bookings and rental rates offered by the major producing companies. Rembusch also donated one of the first motion picture projectors used in Indiana to the Smithsonian Institute.