-- When residents of Montgomery think of Old Cloverdale, the

is often an image that stands in the forefront.

However, as the movie industry changes, Montgomery's oldest movie theatre is facing a challenge that could ultimately be its demise.

Capri Theatre Director Martin McCaffery said the theatre must switch from using 35 mm film to digital in order to continue screening motion pictures.

"Fewer movies are available," said Capri Theatre Director Martin McCaffery. "If we don't get digital, we don 't have films."

McCaffery said the theatre is in need of $80,000 worth of digital equipment to make the switch. Without it, the Capri will no longer be able to operate.

"The movie industry has gone to digital," said McCaffery. "We, and other small theaters, are sort of being forced to do this or go out of business."

The theatre hopes to raise the money to purchase the equipment through a Kickstarter campaign that will begin on Friday and run through April 30. During the campaign, donators will be offered various incentives, ranging from concessions to a piece of of a 35 mm projector.

McCaffery is hopeful the Capri Theatre will receive the same amount of support as Mobile's

when it raised the money needed to purchase a digital projector through a similar fundraiser.

If the Kickstarter campaign doesn't work, McCaffery said the theatre will consider other ways to produce the funds needed to go digital, including taking out a loan or trying a different route to raise donations.

"We will have to reevaluate how we are going to operate," said McCaffery.

The Capri Theatre, which was originally built as The Clover in 1941, was Montgomery's first neighborhood theatre. It was renamed The Capri Theatre in December 1962.