![]() ![]() Grell was noted for murals that he painted in the 1920s and 30s in many Rapp and Rapp-designed theaters in the Paramount-Publix chain. The murals in the theater's dome, Grand Hall and Elizabethan Room were painted by the Chicago-based artist Louis Grell. In 1959, a recording of Richard Leibert playing the Wurlitzer organ, Sing a Song with Leibert, was produced by Westminster Records. The organ continued to be played intermittently throughout the Paramount's history by George Wright and other noted organists. Crawford, who advised on the construction and installation of the organ, was the theater's featured organist from the 1926 opening until 1933. The organ had 36 ranks of voiced metal and wooden pipes weighing a total of 33 tons. Designed for the famous organist Jesse Crawford, the organ was used for solos and to accompany silent films. The theater housed one of the largest and most admired theater organs built by the Wurlitzer company. The stage gala was produced by John Murray Anderson. The Paramount Theatre opened on November 19, 1926, with the gala showing of God Gave Me 20 Cents with Mayor Walker and Thomas Edison as guests. The Brooklyn Paramount Theater, also in New York City, opened in 1928. The tower which housed it, known as the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway, is in commercial use as an office building and is still home to Paramount Pictures offices.įollowing the closing of the Times Square Paramount Theatre, two other theaters in Manhattan have had the same name: the Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden and a movie theater in Columbus Circle, now demolished. ![]() ![]() The theater was closed in 1964 and its space converted to office and retail use. The Paramount Theatre eventually became a popular live performance venue. Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount predecessor Famous Players Film Company, maintained an office in the building until his death in 1976. Opened in 1926, it was a showcase theatre and the New York headquarters of Paramount Pictures. The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in New York City. Screen Slate is maintained by a New York charitable corporation that is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.Hard Rock Cafe in the former Paramount Theatre's lobby space. Collectively, the Screen Slate brain trust has programmed at venues including Spectacle, Anthology Film Archives, BAM, Film at Lincoln Center, Metrograph, and the Museum of Arts and Design. We apply this same sensibility to our own programming, which often place narrative/genre cinema and experimental film and media art in dialog. In addition to featured picks, we also run interviews, essays, and more, taking an adventurously far-reaching yet incisive approach to screen culture's history and future. Our coverage is driven intellectual curiosity and a strong curatorial perspective. We’ve published thousands of pieces of critically engaged writing by hundreds of contributors, many of whom are also involved in other behind-the-scenes capacities. (And eliminating the need to juggle a dozen other newsletters and print calendars.) Since 2011, Screen Slate has helped people in NYC figure out what to see by publishing the only central listings resource for independent, repertory, and microcinemas and art spaces, picking up where a formerly robust network of alt-weekly newspapers and email listservs trailed off. ![]()
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