The series "Theaters", commenced in 1976, initially documentied Amirican movie theaters from the late 1920s and 1930s, in the following Sugimoto continued the series in American drive-in cinemas like Vermont Drive-In. Sugimoto exposes the film in a shaded auditorium for feature-length, which leaves a washed-out area of pure light for the canvas. Sugimoto described the process as follows: "The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes." (Quote after www.sugimotohiroshi.com/Theaters.html).