"Cisco Pike"

Karen Black drives by the Campus Theatre, 1020 N. Vermont Ave., in "Cisco Pike" (Columbia, 1971). This bit in the upper left is about all we get to see, other than a small section of the readerboard a moment earlier revealing that they were running the 1970 release "Soldier Blue." Karen's not happy about having to pick up her boyfriend, Kris Kristofferson, stranded after he's fled to avoid the cops when a drug deal turned out to be a setup. This was Kristofferson's first movie.

Bill Norton directed the film, which also stars Gene Hackman, Harry Dean Stanton, Viva, Joy Bang and Roscoe Lee Browne. The cinematography by Vilis Lapenieks features lots of time in Venice, nice shots of the ruins of POP, and many scenes in other locations on the west side of L.A.

See the page about the Campus Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site. It opened in 1939, a design of S.E. Sonnichsen. It's still around, but rebuilt in a major way as a music venue.

On IMDb: "Cisco Pike"

"Let's Go To The Movies"

We get a quick look at the Hawaii Theatre, one of many Los Angeles area theatres featured, in the nine minute short "Let's Go To The Movies," available on the Internet Archive. It was produced by RKO in 1948 for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Campus Theatre in "Let's Go To The Movies."

 

Donavan S. Moye got this version of the shot from the appearance of the Campus clip about 39 minutes into Inés Toharia Terán's 2021 documentary "Film: The Living Record of Our Memory." Donavan notes that the footage of the Campus also made an appearance in Leon Gast's 2010 documentary "Smash His Camera," a film about photographer Ron Galella. 

 

 

The Cinema Theatre in "Let's Go To The Movies."

The Esquire Theatre in "Let's Go To The Movies."

The Monica Theatre in "Let's Go To The Movies."

A look at the Academy Theatre in Pasadena. 

We also get a brief glimpse of the Edwards circuit's Santa Anita Theatre.

 The Azusa/Edwards Village Theatre in Azusa. Thanks to Joe Vogel for identifying it. 

On IMDb: "Let's Go To The Movies"