The Bill Cosford Cinema is a state-of-the-art exhibition facility with a Dolby Digital surround sound system as well as 35mm and 70mm projectors. The theater seats 240 and is used for both instructional and public exhibition programs.
Bill Cosford was a popular adjunct professor in the School of Communication’s motion pictures program, who served as film critic and arts writer for the Miami Herald from 1973 until his untimely death from pneumonia in 1994 at age 47. He was a champion for the Beaumont Cinema (the theater’s former name), helping it to become a fully operational art film house for the public, something he thought the area desperately needed.
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