Movie House
1220 SW Taylor Street,
Portland,
OR
1220 SW Taylor Street,
Portland,
OR
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This great little art house was located in the old Women’s Club building.
It was closed in the summer of 2000 by Regal Cinemas.
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The address for the Movie House Theatre is 1220 SW Taylor St., Portland, Or.
Before movies they would sometimes show a claymation short — Will Vinton’s 1975 short “Mountain Music”.
In the short a little mountain scene is visited by a few musicians on acoustic instruments. The local animals like the music and start to sing along. Slowly the band updates their equipment, adding electric guitars, hooking up to amps, et cetera. As the instruments get more powerful, the music louder and louder, the animals are confused, then disturbed and finally driven away. The band jams on and it seems that even the planet is disturbed by the music — the mountain blows it’s top covering everything in claymation lava.
You can see a photo of the Movie House building at View link
This is a recent photo of The Movie House taken by strawberry.
The Movie House, like the nearby Guild, was a “reverse” theater. Meaning, you entered at the screen and proceeded back toward the seating.
This may have been my favorite theater in Portland. It’s very sad that it closed.