Just saw My Fair Lady on 4/2/05 which was preceded by a Laurel & Hardy short and organ concert. Beautiful place. You can buy a book outlining the restoration in the lobby.
Interesting tidbit: Scenes from The School of Rock (2003)were filmed at the theater.
I hadn’t checked the marquee carefully. The movies listed are from 1991, so a slight correction needs to be made to the second paragraph of the original listing above. I would suspect multiple screens. In addition, it would appear that the name was changed to Bel Air (2 words) sometime during the theater’s later years.
“Two White Arms” (1932)was the first film shown at a drive-in theater on 6 June 1933 in Camden, New Jersey. It was released in the US and shown at the drive-in under the name “Wife Beware.” The film was chosen because it had played for only one week in theaters a few weeks earlier and they wanted a film that would not conflict with major releases.
On 21 July 2004, David Packard announced to the audience at the Stanford theater in Palo Alto, California, that his foundation will be issuing “That Certain Thing” (1928) on DVD, with a musical score compiled and performed by Dennis James, recorded using the Stanford’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. This will be the first time this film has ever been issued on DVD or video, and the first film to be issued, in a non-theatrical format, by the Stanford Theater Foundation.
Smart Woman (1931) was the first film played at the famous Roxy Theater in New York City. per the imdb I find this hard to believe if the theater opened in 1927. Perhaps this was the first talkie to play there.
When Red Salute (1935)premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York in 1935, the leftist, anti-war National Students League stood outside leading a boycott. Inside the theater, there were fist fights between students and angry patriots, resulting in the arrest of 18 people.
The movie “Garden State” was released on Wednesday, 28 July 2004, to eight theaters: three in Los Angeles, four in New York City, and at the Maplewood Theatre in Maplewood, New Jersey. This was the home theater of Zach Braff (who is from the adjacent town of South Orange). He attended the Maplewood premiere, and his father, who still lives in the area, was at the theatre for the film’s first Friday and Saturday.
The film “Ed Wood” depicts the premiere of “Plan Nine From Outer Space” (1959) as taking place at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The premiere was actually held at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles.
Just saw My Fair Lady on 4/2/05 which was preceded by a Laurel & Hardy short and organ concert. Beautiful place. You can buy a book outlining the restoration in the lobby.
Interesting tidbit: Scenes from The School of Rock (2003)were filmed at the theater.
If I hear anything, I’ll post it here.
I believe this to be the theater – this person spelled it as Aurora:
http://www.lak-12.org/piter/html/Aurora_movie.htm
Old interior photo:
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photo of exterior
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nice photo
Evening photo of marquee:
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this photo doesn’t have the nice exterior paint scheme as shown on the theater’s website:
http://www.chincoteague.net/map-ft1b.html
Photos here (note cross reference back to CT!):
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side view of marquee:
http://www.painetworks.com/photos/hl/hl0101.JPG
Recent photo:
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Nice close up photo:
http://you-are-here.com/theatre/mayan.html
I hadn’t checked the marquee carefully. The movies listed are from 1991, so a slight correction needs to be made to the second paragraph of the original listing above. I would suspect multiple screens. In addition, it would appear that the name was changed to Bel Air (2 words) sometime during the theater’s later years.
“Two White Arms” (1932)was the first film shown at a drive-in theater on 6 June 1933 in Camden, New Jersey. It was released in the US and shown at the drive-in under the name “Wife Beware.” The film was chosen because it had played for only one week in theaters a few weeks earlier and they wanted a film that would not conflict with major releases.
On 21 July 2004, David Packard announced to the audience at the Stanford theater in Palo Alto, California, that his foundation will be issuing “That Certain Thing” (1928) on DVD, with a musical score compiled and performed by Dennis James, recorded using the Stanford’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. This will be the first time this film has ever been issued on DVD or video, and the first film to be issued, in a non-theatrical format, by the Stanford Theater Foundation.
Smart Woman (1931) was the first film played at the famous Roxy Theater in New York City. per the imdb I find this hard to believe if the theater opened in 1927. Perhaps this was the first talkie to play there.
When Red Salute (1935)premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York in 1935, the leftist, anti-war National Students League stood outside leading a boycott. Inside the theater, there were fist fights between students and angry patriots, resulting in the arrest of 18 people.
The world premiere of The Jazz Singer (1927) was at the Tower Theater in Los Angeles.
The movie “Garden State” was released on Wednesday, 28 July 2004, to eight theaters: three in Los Angeles, four in New York City, and at the Maplewood Theatre in Maplewood, New Jersey. This was the home theater of Zach Braff (who is from the adjacent town of South Orange). He attended the Maplewood premiere, and his father, who still lives in the area, was at the theatre for the film’s first Friday and Saturday.
The Florodora Girl (1930) was the first film which opened the famous Pantages Theater at Hollywood and Vine.
Behind That Curtain (1929) was premiered at the grand opening of the Fox Theater at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco on 28 June 1929
The film “Ed Wood” depicts the premiere of “Plan Nine From Outer Space” (1959) as taking place at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The premiere was actually held at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles.
590 as of the 1951 FDY – consistency!