Just seven years later, the Apollo Theater opened, and installed sound equipment for the 1928 The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie". In 2012 (after a year of renovations) the building became the centerpiece for the Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman Cinema Studies Center for Media Education and Production. The area above the theatre includes editing labs, an animation area, a recording studio and small projection screening room.
== Sustainability ==
In 2006, Oberlin became one of the charter institutions to sign the ACUPCC and set a target climate neutrality date for 2025. Oberlin's innovative Adam Joseph Lewis Center For Environmental Studies, a building the Department of Energy labeled as one of the "milestone" buildings of the 20th century, incorporates a 4,600-square-foot (430-square-meter) photovoltaic array, the biggest of its kind in Ohio at the time. The AJLC also features a Living Machine, garden, orchard, and parking-lot solar array.
The school utilizes biodiesel, hybrid, and electric vehicles for various …
