在这部影院历史手册片中,本片记录了从卢米埃兄弟首次放映到因疫情影院关闭的120年间所有的关键发展阶段。《影院历史手册》讲述了影院的发展历史，并深入挖掘影院的社会和文化价值。
影院是否知道，未来将如何进行自我改造，以变成一个强大且稳定的分享情感的去处？未来的影院会是什么样？哪些观众还会去影院？《影院历史手册》通过分析都灵影院适应、再造，最终达到国际知名程度的过程回答以上问题。
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.
