Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

1980
46m

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Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush (1980)

When Brooklyns Kings Theater, one of five Wonder Theaters in the New York area, closed its doors in 1977, a neighborhood mourned. This feature is both a eulogy and a love letter to the Brooklyn institution. In a series of interviews, local aficionados of the palace as well as its projectionist, its organist, and former employees, reminisce about the Kings and its charmed days gone by.

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Like the forums and amphitheaters of ancient days, movie palaces like Brooklyn's Kings Theater were, in their hayday, cultural epicenters and community defining landmarks - microcosmic fanta... Read allLike the forums and amphitheaters of ancient days, movie palaces like Brooklyn's Kings Theater were, in their hayday, cultural epicenters and community defining landmarks - microcosmic fantasy worlds where neighborly warmth blended with the glitz and grandeur of Hollywood magic. ... Read allLike the forums and amphitheaters of ancient days, movie palaces like Brooklyn's Kings Theater were, in their hayday, cultural epicenters and community defining landmarks - microcosmic fantasy worlds where neighborly warmth blended with the glitz and grandeur of Hollywood magic. When The Kings, one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area, finally closed its doo... Read all

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A 30-minute version aired on the WNET arts program Skyline on May 29, 1979.

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Harold Rambush: It's a wonderful experience to come here to the Kings theatre which I have not visited during the last fifty years when I actually worked on it. To enter these lobbies that are so lush and rich in their expense and in their concept of design.