Decades ago, the Lovin' Spoonful rock group sang, "It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie," and the Apollo helps bring that joy to the movie-going experience.

Motion pictures can be traced to parlor-room productions projected from a primitive "magic lantern," through nickelodeons and "flickers" to one-reelers, silent features and the sound/color extravaganzas audiences expect today.

Some things are missing when we go to multiplexes, however: good films and intimacy in the theatrical experience.