Most airlines also require passengers be at the boarding gate approximately 30 minutes before departure. As airport processing times vary, Delta's website suggests arriving at the airport three hours before international travel, while Virgin America recommends allowing two hours.
The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds.
Most of the patrons walking into the Empire also have no idea of its history. In the lobby, they are actually standing inside the shell of the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, which opened Sept. 11, 1912, and was named in honor of the most popular female impersonator of the time, Julian Eltinge.