Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

1980 | 46 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)

Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
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    When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. 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.

  • Release Date

    01 April 1980

  • DirectingChristian Blackwood
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