Oregon Theater Project Database

This is the data associated with the website "Oregon Theater Project: Exhibition and Moviegoing in the Silent Era" (https://otp.uoregon.edu/). Website content is overseen and maintained by Michael Aronson and Elizabeth Peterson. The website is a Drupal site built and maintained by University of Oregon's Information Services. As part of a class that we teach on film history, our undergraduate students add information about silent movie theaters in Oregon that we add to the website. A complete list of the students who wrote parts of the descriptive entries in this data set is included as a text file in this data set. This data set is based on a Drupal csv export of the structured Drupal data; these unprocessed files are in the "data" folder of this repository. Data export and cleaning is done by Gabriele Hayden; final data sets for use are in the "results" folder. The R cleaning script is included. For more information on the class, see the PDF of a profile article. For more information on the data, see our notes and attached README file. Our intention is to create a new (updated) version of this data set each time we teach the class. In future versions we also hope to share Shapefiles and urls associated with each theater.