Mark it on your calendars — PALACE PREMIERE

Mark it on your calendars!

PALACE – SHORT FILM PREMIERE
When: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Where: Carlisle Theatre, PA
www.Palacethefilm.com

On Sunday, May 5, the Palace premiere will be held at the Carlisle Theatre, PA at 7:15 p.m. With more than 900 available seats, the theatre is expected to bring a large crowd with free admission. Donations will be collected at the event, half of which will go to the Carlisle Theatre’s Save the Carlisle campaign and the other half to Messiah College’s Film Department.

“We hope that people will find themselves generous that evening because the donations will go to two great causes,” says Vega.

They will also be selling copies of the Palace on DVD and Bluray, as well as Palace T-shirts and other merchandise. For people who donated to the Indiegogo campaign, their incentives will be also available that evening.

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To view the Palace trailer, click on the image.

“The story behind Palace was inspired by the current industry changes threatening old movie theaters,” says director and producer Rolando Vega. “The transition from celluloid film to digital cinema is severely affecting older movie theaters. Palace points us to the cinema of the past and reminds us of that one moment and place when we fell in love with movies.”

The Carlisle Theatre closed in 1986, but the Carlisle Regional Performing Arts Center restored and reopened the building in 1993. It serves the community through the showing of films, performing arts, concerts and other events. Downtown Carlisle would not be the same without the treasured theatre and its history with the community.

“Palace is a film about the human connection to art, specifically cinematic art, and how it can change us, especially at a younger age. It outlines the beauty of how a movie palace can be a magical place that interconnects multiple generations through their mutual passion for films. It is a constant reminder that even though we are all different, movies can bring people together.”
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For more information about the film, visit Palacethefilm.com

Recommended Viewing: Million Dollar Theater

Originally posted online in 2009, we highly recommend this video series.
Click the image to watch Part 1.

Video Description: Hillsman Wright, the executive director of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, tours the hidden spaces inside Sid Grauman’s first movie palace in Los Angeles, the Million Dollar Theater.

FOR THE WHOLE STORY, click below:
Part 1 . Part 2. Part 3.

Sizzle Reel: The Cost of History

Make sure you click below to watch a Sizzle Reel by Sterling Rock Productions for a new show they’re producing called the “The Cost of History.”

THS Executive Director Richard Fosbrink, is featured as the topic is the Patio Theater.  The Patio Theater was on LI’s Chicagoland Watch List with other neighborhood theaters in 2004.

More CINERAMA for you to enjoy!

From Randy Gitsch and the Cinerama Restoration Crew:

Our digital, recombined, remastered and Smileboxed, “Cinerama Holiday” (1955) will screen on April 27th in Bradford, Yorkshire, at England’s National Media Museum, during the Widescreen Weekend portion of their Bradford Film Festival. It will be shown on the Pictureville Cinema’s curved screen, and in one of only three in the world venues capable of showing real, 3-projector Cinerama. Our digital version can be projected on flat, or curved theatrical screens, with perfect visual results. In fact, we’ve shown our previous digital versions, of “Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich”, and “South Seas Adventure” here to packed houses and enthusiastic acclaim.

Click here to watch an online Smilebox version of Cinerama Holiday.

David Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, responsible for the remastering of this title and the rest of the Cinerama widescreen library, will present both the film and a behind-the-scenes seminar on the film and its painstaking reconstruction while in Pictureville. This year’s festival will be mark the 7th time that Strohmaier and Gitsch have been guests of the festival where they’ve presented films they’ve created on the subject of Cinerama, and shown their remastered, widescreen works.

Discussions are initially underway by Cinerama, Inc. for distribution of this title by Flicker Alley, the current distributor of combo DVD/Blu-ray releases of “Windjammer” and “This is Cinerama”.

Medina, NY – Grant will fund architect for Medina opera house

For a history of the theatre and information about the renovation, view this YouTube Video

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Posted: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:00 am

By Tom Rivers trivers@batavianews.com | 0 comments

An organization committed to restoring the former Bent’s Opera House in downtown Medina has been awarded a $2,020 grant to hire an architect.

The Preservation League of New York State announced the technical assistance grant for the Orleans Renaissance Group. The League in April named the former opera house one of its “Seven to Save,” an annual list that tries to highlight historic sites that need help. Water infiltration and structural issues are among the concerns that led the Medina landmark to be included in the “Seven to Save” list.

Bent’s Opera House was built in 1864-85 and is an anchor building in Medina’s Main Street Historic District. The former opera house was last used by a bank in 2009. Bank of America has since donated the building to the ORG.

For the complete story, go to http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_4f0fb022-4992-11e2-a0bd-001a4bcf887a.html

For the theatre’s website, visit

Tacoma, WA and Carlisle, PA-Two great projects that need your support

‘Tis the season of giving and here are two great projects for THS members to support!

In Carlisle, PA filmaker Rolando Vega is raising funds to make a film  about how a movie palace in a small town connects with three generations of cinema-goers. This is a great project for THS members to support and there are less than 15 days left to make a donation.  Click here to watch the trailer and make a donation right now.

In Tacoma, WA The Blue Mouse Theatre is fighting the good fight, and like so many theatres is raising capital for digital projection.  You can help them by making an donation via Kickstarter.  Click here for more information and to make a donation.

A new short film about movie palaces!

Rolando Vega is a senior undergraduate film major at Temple University in Pennsylvania who contacted us at THS about his senior thesis short film entitled Palace.

Palace is a short film about how the magic of cinema connects three generations of movie goers through a timeless movie palace.

Think back to the first time you stepped into a movie theater. Do you remember that one movie that took you from your seat and catapulted you into another place, another time, another world?

This is story is about that spectacular feeling when the movie flickered for the first time in front of your eyes. It’s a story about that magical place where wonderful stories are told. This is not a story about a movie theater. It is more than that; it is a tale of a Palace.

There are plenty of opportunities for THS members to support Rolando and his film.  Click here to watch the video and pledge your financial support the production:

http://www.indiegogo.com/palace

CBS THIS MORNING features images from THS!

http://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morning/video/2294969096/capitol-theatre-s-rich-history

THS recently provided images for a CBS This Morning story on the Capitol Theatre in Portchester, NY.  Click on the link above to watch the video.

Broadway marquees at nite – 1950s

Interesting newsreel clips of New York City in this link to the gothamist from New Yorker Biff Buttler. Scroll down to the 8th from the top (a little boy in front of sign board) to see lots of marquees on the Great White Way  blazing in the  night

http://gothamist.com/2012/10/10/videos_spend_an_hour_in_1950s_new_y.php

Demolition of movie theatre turned church

Our Biff Buttler sends this link to a video of  an East Village, New York City theatre coming apart although there isn’t much in the way of huge wall sections dramatically crashing down:

“Here’s video of workers demolishing the building on the corner of Avenue B and East 12th Street that held the Elim Pentecostal Church and before that, a theater (Bijou / Charles ) that was a locus of 1960s counterculture. . . .”

http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/watch-the-demolition-of-a-historic-movie-theater-turned-church/