157:, though more recently he has been paying out of his own pocket. Jablon's documentation effort came as the buildings were fast disappearing—he reckons about thirty stand-alone theaters were still operating in Thailand when he began the project, a number that had fallen to four by 2016. Of the almost 250 buildings he had photographed by 2019, probably half had disappeared.
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