Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush (1980)
• April 1st, 1980 • 0h 46min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Setting Sun
Released on: 2024-07-27
Documentary
On July 6, 2024, The Sun-Ray Cinema at 5 Points in Jacksonville, Florida screened its final film.
Back to the Drive-in
Released on: 2022-08-12
Documentary
A feature-length documentary that goes behind the scenes to get to know the families who own and ope...
Room 999
Released on: 2023-10-05
Documentary
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in...
Sculpture
Released on: 2022-01-01
Documentary, Music, Thriller, Animation, History
Video art of sculpture is the real life story of Rumi (Mevlana) and Shams Tabrizi. Rumi and Shams ar...
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History
Released on: 2021-03-11
Documentary, Comedy
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the prese...
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Released on: 2023-11-09
Documentary
Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson and other film luminaries look back at LA's historic Egyptian Theat...
Built to Last
Released on: 2018-09-22
Documentary
From humble beginnings in a small slate roofed village in Greece to the heyday of America's movie pa...
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
Released on: 2019-10-25
Documentary, History
Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...
Marqueetown
Released on: 2024-03-31
Documentary
Through booms and busts, Delft Theatres and its innovative gem The Nordic endured in Marquette, Mich...
Palace of Silents
Released on: 2010-10-03
Documentary, History
Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent f...
Jefftowne 2
Released on: 2003-06-17
Documentary
Jeff Towne revisited four years after the release of the original film.
Scala!!!
Released on: 2024-01-05
Documentary
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs...
At the Drive-In
Released on: 2017-10-24
Drama, Documentary, Comedy
Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight...
La Caissière fait son cinéma
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
Paris, Latin Quarter. A small cinema that is both famous and marginal, Action Christine. The cashi...
Essential Exhibition
Released on: 2022-01-01
Documentary
An independent documentary about the unprecedented struggles of movie theaters and the film industry...
Under the Stars
Released on: 2022-10-15
Documentary
Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – thi...
Ghosts Behind the Screen
Released on: 2017-10-21
Documentary, Mystery
In the excitement of the roaring 20s, a new kind of movie palace was constructed by the Bay. More th...
Drive-In Movie Memories
Released on: 2001-08-31
Documentary
A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photograph...