Little Art Cinema

Rockport, MA

19 School Street

, Rockport, MA 01966 United States

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978.546.2548

Status:	Open
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Movies (Foreign)
Seats:	Unknown
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

This small single-screen seasonal cinema in the seaside Massachusetts beach and resort town of Rockport is located on the second floor of a building called Spiran Hall. The concession stand and ticket-purchase area are located on the first floor.

Walk up the winding staircase to the second level and you enter a pleasant but slightly musty auditorium with seating on a single flat level amid a moderately tattered environment. The small place has real character and is of the kind that is sadly disappearing from America.

The programming of mostly art-house movies of recent vintage is appropriate and reflects the interests and tastes of the clientele that spend time in the area and patronize the place.

Contributed by Gerald A. DeLuca

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A sign on the building that the theatre is located in names it as Spiran Lodge #98, VASA Order of America, A Fraternal Order of Scandinavia, Chartered 1906. Here are photos of the outside of the building and part of the interior seating.
OUTSIDE
SEATING

posted by Gerald A. DeLuca on Aug 26, 2007 at 11:56am

Does this theatre have a web site? I believe it is seasonal, and that one year (last year?) it almost didn't open at all.

posted by Ron Newman on Aug 26, 2007 at 12:01pm

I stated in the description that I thought it was seasonal. I could not find a web site of its own, only comments on other sites by people who had visited the place and commented on its funkiness, shaky projection, etc. The owner generously allowed me to enter the auditorium even though it was a few hours before the evening show. Then he got upset when I was about to take a photo. I basically just stumbled on the place on a daytrip to Rockport by MBTA from Boston.

posted by Gerald A. DeLuca on Aug 26, 2007 at 12:07pm

I spent summers in Rockport/Gloucester in the 1940s and early-1950s and I am 95 % certain that there was no movie show in this building back then.

posted by Ron Salters on Aug 27, 2007 at 10:39am

The second floor auditorium seems to have existed long before the space was leased for cinema use. It might have been an all-purpose hall, for meetings, socials, dances. The floor is hardwood and flat. I should have enquired.

posted by Gerald A. DeLuca on Aug 28, 2007 at 11:08am

Little Art Cinema opens for 23rd season on May 23, 2008.

posted by Lost Memory on Aug 24, 2008 at 3:52pm

The 1927 Film Daily Yearbook lists one movie venue for Rockport, the Town Hall with 800 seats.

posted by Ron Salters on Jun 4, 2009 at 11:26am

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