I wasn’t there for the last show, but I distinctly recall going to a Charlie Chaplin festival at the Pearl St. location with either a piano or an organ playing along to the Gold Rush.
Those theatres are all great, agreed.
By the way, there is a clip on YouTube of Dana Hersey going into the Rat some time in the 80s, but in the middle of it there is a segue to a sequence at Off the Wall. It’s an absolute time warp.
What a great find this is! My memories of Off the Wall as a kid are among the fondest I have, a place where imagination stretched in all directions. The animation festivals were the best precisely because they were not stupid “children’s” movies, but everything else, including silent movies with live musical accompaniment, is hard to imagine in the Googleplex era. Gone but never forgotten.
I wasn’t there for the last show, but I distinctly recall going to a Charlie Chaplin festival at the Pearl St. location with either a piano or an organ playing along to the Gold Rush.
Those theatres are all great, agreed.
By the way, there is a clip on YouTube of Dana Hersey going into the Rat some time in the 80s, but in the middle of it there is a segue to a sequence at Off the Wall. It’s an absolute time warp.
What a great find this is! My memories of Off the Wall as a kid are among the fondest I have, a place where imagination stretched in all directions. The animation festivals were the best precisely because they were not stupid “children’s” movies, but everything else, including silent movies with live musical accompaniment, is hard to imagine in the Googleplex era. Gone but never forgotten.