Great Escape: See Movies on Actual Big Screens

You may tell your children that theaters used to have 20-foot by 47-foot screens, exactly unlike those at shoebox theaters in multiplexes, but you also told them that the Tooth Fairy was real, so why should they believe you?

We suggest offering proof this weekend in the Palace Theatre at Playhouse Square’s 14th annual Summer Movie Series. The final three films are Muppet Treasure Island at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20; The Big Chill at 8 p.m. Saturday; and Spider-Man at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5.

And your parents may have told you that movies in the olden days were silent, and an organist in the theater livened up the place with music appropriate to the scenes on the screen. They spoke the truth. Arrive a half-hour early to hear the preshow recital on a restored 1927 Kimball organ.