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Berkeley’s large theaters in the early 1900s included the 1,500-seat Lorin Theater, seen above in 1921 advertising silent film star Buster Keaton’s movie “The Scarecrow.
And Kael’s first movie gig was projecting films at the Berkeley Cinema Guild at Haste and Telegraph . All this and more is the subject of one of the Berkeley Historical Society’s most eagerly-anticipated exhibits in years, “Berkeley and The Movies.”) will kick off with a grand opening from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. this Sunday in Berkeley’s Veterans Memorial Building at 1931 Center St.
They included downtown Berkeley’s 2,000-seat UC Theatre, the 1,500-seat South Berkeley’s Lorin Theater and West Berkeley’s 700-seat Varsity Theatre. By 1914, movie theaters were showing films from the major studios, including the Rex Theater, which was showing flicks from Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig and Biograph.
The studios responded by making movies bigger, if not better, while the theater owners went in the other direction by carving their huge movie palaces into smaller units and showing many different films simultaneously.
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