"X: The Unheard Music"

The Pussycat Theatre, 6656 Hollywood Blvd., is seen in "X: The Unheard Music" (Skouras Pictures, 1986), W.T. Morgan's documentary about the L.A. punk band X. 

 

We go around to the alley south of the theatre. 

Brendan Mullen takes us down the stairs. From August 1977 until January 1978 the basement under the theatre and the adjacent office building at Hollywood and Cherokee had  been his infamous punk club, Masque. The club didn't last longer because it was closed by the Fire Marshal.  

 

 Looking at the walls.  

 

The film cuts to a vintage black and white still and zooms into that for the trip down the stairs.

More investigation.

 

Another look at graffitti. 

 

Surplus seats. 

See the page about the Pussycat / Ritz Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site. It had opened in 1940 as a newsreel house.

On IMDb: "X: The Unheard Music" 

 

For more recent footage of the basement see "Masque," an 11 minute video made in 2012 by Mike Plante that's on Vimeo. Esotouric had located it for a Facebook post that was spotted by Terrence Butcher.