🎬 Movie

Palace of Silents

Name: Palace of Silents
Released: 2010
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Laurence Austin, Michael F. Blake, Mike Hawks, Charlie Lustman, Douglas S. Matthews

📅 2010 ⭐ 6.4 🕐 1h 17m

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Documentary History

Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.