{"id":13350,"date":"2011-04-17T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:14:45","slug":"abandoned-theaters-janus-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/04\/17\/abandoned-theaters-janus-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Theaters + Janus Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

75 Abandoned Theaters from around the USA<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"HolyokeMass\"<\/p>\n

#47 in holyoke MA<\/a> is the victory theater. I am part of a group documenting the restoration efforts, which are already underway. one early project was to interview very elderly people from the area (before they died!) about their memories of the space, to aid in an accurate restoration. these interviews are all on film.” Cicily Corbett<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buffalo NY<\/a> \"buffalonewyork\" <\/p>\n

I have identified the Buffalo theatre (#43). It was called The Sattler Theatre, also known as The Casino and The Broadway (or Dipson\u2019s Broadway), located at 512-516 Broadway. The Sattler was built in 1914, and was in continuous use as a movie theater until the mid-60s, when it was converted first into a mosque, then a Christian revival church (\u201cGod\u2019s Holy Temple\u201d) for the local African-American community. It was designed by Henry L. Spann , who also designed other Buffalo theatres, including the North Park (which is still operating as an art-house theatre, near my home Jeff O’Connell <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Queen Theater \"queenHonlulu\" Honolulu
\nI saw the Russian Hamlet<\/a> in this theater and my late mother saw Bergman’s Silence here. <\/p>\n

They evoke many feelings of beauty, majesty, longing for the memory of decades of experienced magic, tragedy of neglect for ornate architecture that was once common and taken for granted, and wish that they could all be brought back to life as performance art and cinema spaces. Perhaps some say these are examples of \u201cruin porn\u201d (the voyeuristic and exploitative celebration of decay), but I disagree. They are certainly motivators to reconsider and reclaim the urban landscape as a resource and not symbols of crime, death, and the Death Of America. Jeff O’Connell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    \"Janusboxsetstill\"<\/p>\n

    50 Years of Janus Film<\/a><\/p>\n

    Cyrus I. Harvey<\/a> R.I.P.
    \na quirky entrepreneur who created two significant brands in disparate fields \u2014 Janus Films, a distributor of movies by international directors like Bergman, Fellini and Kurosawa, and Crabtree & Evelyn, the purveyor of aromatic soaps and botanicals \u2014 died Thursday in Dayville, Conn. He was 85 and lived in Woodstock, Conn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Harvard Film Archives<\/a> <\/p>\n

    The founders of Janus Films, Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. (both actors), eventually purchased the Brattle Theatre, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, converting it into an art film movie house. Haliday and Harvey continued to show Janus titles at the Brattle until 1966, when they sold Janus Films to its new owners, Saul Turell and William Becker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Janus film Charlie Chaplin..<\/a><\/p>\n

    Below I\u2019ve linked the images to their corresponding pages within the Janus site, for each Charlie Chaplin film they\u2019ve made available so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    75 Abandoned Theaters from around the USA #47 in holyoke MA is the victory theater. I am part of a group documenting the restoration efforts, which are already underway. one early project was to interview very elderly people from the area (before they died!) about their memories of the space, to aid in an accurate … <\/p>\n

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