Martha’s Vineyard. c. 1997. By Paul Goldfinger © Reposted and updated from October, 2013 on BF.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
The Strand Theatre was built in the 1920’s and closed around 2010. After that it became a bicycle shop. In 2015, the Martha’s Vineyard Theater Foundation raised money to reopen the Strand for movies.
Movies can seem so real and important, so the MV community made sure that their cinema was brought back to life. Back when, we told our kids, “It’s only a movie.” But the magic of movies draws you in.
Try to stay disengaged if you see “Captain Phillips” with Tom Hanks.
Merle Haggard recorded “It’s All in the Movies:”
“But that’s all in the movies
It won’t happen to you and I
That’s all in the movies
So, baby, don’t cry
It’s all in the movies
It won’t happen to us I know
That’s all in the movies
Just a bad picture show”
To be more precise the Eden is the worlds oldest “Cinema” theater
I just read that the Eden Theater, the worlds oldest, in the French city of La Ciotat, reopened Wednesday after extensive refurbishment. The very first motion picture, 50 seconds long of a steam train pulling into a station, was screened there in 1899 to some 250, some so terrified they leapt out of their seats. And it was not in 3D.