Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
Laurence Austin
as Self (archive footage)
Michael F. Blake
as Self
Mike Hawks
as Self
Charlie Lustman
as Self
Douglas S. Matthews
as Hitman
Robert Mitchell
as Self
Dean Mora
as Self
David Slaughter
as Self
George Wagner
as Self
Valerie Yaros
as Self
John Hampton
as Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Hampton
as Self (archive footage)
