Palace of Silents

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.

• Iain KennedyDirector
• Benedikt BrydernOriginal Music Composer

• Laurence AustinSelf (archive footage)
• Michael F. BlakeSelf
• Mike HawksSelf
• Charlie LustmanSelf
• Douglas S. MatthewsHitman
• Robert MitchellSelf
• Dean MoraSelf
• David SlaughterSelf
• George WagnerSelf
• Valerie YarosSelf
• John HamptonSelf (archive footage)
• Dorothy HamptonSelf (archive footage)