Some sources consulted for this section:
CinemaTreasures: website (catalog of historic movie theaters)
nytimes.com for All-Movie Guide
The New Yorker
Broadway: It's History, People and Places, Ken Bloom
Variety
Photoplay
The American Film Industry, Tino Balio,
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, Anthony Slide
International Motion Picture Almanac 1946/1947
The Radio City Music Hall, Charles Francisco
America Goes to the Movies: 100 Years of Motion Picture Exhibition, Barbara Stones
A History of Film, Jack Ellis
Merely Colossal: The Story of the Movies From the Long Chase to the Chaise Longue, Arthur Mayer
Film Writing and Selected Journalism, James Agee, Library of America
Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s, Volume 6, The History of the American Cinema, Thomas Schatz
Great Fortune, The Epic of Rockefeller Center, David Okrent
imdb.com
Wikipedia
Animation World Magazine
"Why did the horror movie factories shut down after World War II?" Ron Miller, TheColumnists.com