Lights, Camera, Movies-Year of darkness ends as cinema reopens ...

Nearly seven months into repairing and remodeling the old double-screened cinema, adding a better sound system and a lamp house, the owners of The Box have cranked up the projectors and are now showing movies again in Douglas. "It's been a labor of love," said Carlos Rodriguez, owner of The Box, Douglas' only cinema. "We had so many people come in and volunteer their time." For the first two months after he bought the empty Douglas Cinema, a two-story brick building with two movie screens, Rodriquez and two others toiled long hours in repairing the interior and exterior of the building. And it was no easy task. First of all, there weren't enough seats, so they had to buy extra rows of seats and install them. They also remodeled the front exterior of the building, replaced poster windows and relocated the ticket both.

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