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The Celebration and Mifune, and many
and clips representing

Hollywood, California, recently reopened

other films

its

participating cinematographers' work.
"Cinematographer's Day" will
benefit from the opening of three new
state-of-the-art theaters in Palm Springs,
which were made available by one of the
event's benefactors. "Our future plans for
the festival include honoring a single
cinematographer and screening a
complete retrospective of their work,"
Kaminsky says, obviously happy with the
new facility. "That will help to solidify our
stature as a premiere cinematography

screening of Charlie Chaplin's 1936

event."

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classic

hosts a program to honor cinema¬
tographers or to provide a forum for both
scientific and creative exchange on this
subject. Both the Camerimage event held
in Torun, Poland, and the Madridimagen
festival in Madrid, Spain, are festivals
created by and for cinematographers -
different in

that this

is

an

international film festival event that
hosts

a

Modern

Times, which

a

was

Roland "Rollie" Totheroh, ASC.
Located at 611 North Fairfax

Avenue, just south of Melrose
Boulevard, the Silent Movie Theater first

opened on February 26, 1942 with a
screening of Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 film
King of Kings, which featured top-notch
camerawork by J. Peverell Marley, ASC.
The stucco-and-wood

has

structure

major earthquakes,

two floods and a riot.

John and

Dorothy Hampton

the Silent Movie Theater for

more

ran
than

35 years, and the unique
offered an array of silent

revival house
features and
shorts with live organ accompaniment.
Meanwhile, John Hampton worked to
collect and restore hundreds of silent

closing, Kaminsky offers, "No

other international film festival here

we're

November 5 with

on

photographed by Ira H. Morgan, ASC and

facilities will

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"In addition," Tovoli says, "the
ensure that people

doors

cinematography event. We

believe this is

a

first in the world, and we

hope people enjoy it."
Further details

on

"Cinemato¬

grapher's Day" may be found at
www.cinematographersday.com. You
may contact the organizers by fax at
(760) 773-1587, or via e-mail at
dkaminsky@emc.org.
The
Nortel
Palm
Springs
International Film Festival may be
reached at (760) 322-2930 or (800) 8987256, by fax at (760) 322-4087, by e-mail
at info@psfilmfest.org, or via website at
www.psfilmfest.org.

film

prints that would have otherwise
passed into oblivion. The couple closed
the theater in 1979 due to a family
illness, and John later passed away - a
victim of cancer possibly contracted due
to his many hours of exposure to the
toxic chemicals used in film restoration
at that time.

In 1991, Laurence Austin, an

aficionado of silent films and

close

Hamptons, convinced
Dorothy that he could reopen the theater
in the spirit of John's memory. Mrs.
Hampton even sold tickets at the box
office until 1993, when her health took a

turn for the worse.

Tragically, on January 17, 1997,
a screening of the 1927 classic
Sunrise, a lone gunman killed Austin -
ostensibly during a robbery attempt.
Later investigation revealed that Austin's
murder was a contract killing planned by
his longtime companion, James Van
Sickle, who had hoped to inherit Austin's
during

estate.

It
Silent

A New Silent Era

a

friend of the

reopen.

was

widely assumed that the

Movie Theater would

In 1999, however, it

never

was

purchased by Charlie Lustman, who has
After

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years,

being dark for almost three

the historic Silent Movie Theater,

located

in

the

Fairfax

District

of

since done

an

extensive renovation.

Improvements include the restoration of
a

second-floor cafe and the construction
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