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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 The screen's stained with beer, the whole place shakes when the tubes run.
00:06 Sans system's crap, but we love it.
00:09 Mark Moore at The Scala.
00:10 [MUSIC]
00:15 >> The Scala had magic.
00:16 >> Let's set up a cinema in the old abandoned embassy from before times.
00:21 [MUSIC]
00:22 >> It was like joining a club.
00:24 >> People would talk more and more about The Scala.
00:26 You should go to The Scala.
00:28 It's really going on there.
00:29 >> A very secret club, like a biker gang or something.
00:32 >> I thought The Scala was a kind of wonderland.
00:35 >> It's like they were a country club for criminals and lunatics and
00:38 people that were high.
00:39 >> You don't get high on acid and you start doing this.
00:44 >> Yes, the Jolinda Tresho in Hairspray.
00:47 [MUSIC]
00:50 >> They found the auteur version of sexploitation.
00:54 >> Having felt myself to be a radical feminist, it felt most peculiar.
00:58 >> The Scala were kind of outsiders and freaks, belonged and felt welcome.
01:03 >> And it blew my mind.
01:04 [MUSIC]
01:06 >> Which is a good way to see movies.
01:08 [MUSIC]
01:10 >> You didn't go there just in case you might trip over somebody having a shag on
01:13 the carpet.
01:14 >> I don't see there's any harm in it at all.
01:16 >> I said I think I have a dead body in my office.
01:20 >> That's what it felt like.
01:21 [MUSIC]
01:22 >> Are you digging?
01:24 >> You don't get that in a Rossplex.
01:27 [MUSIC]
01:37 (thunder)
01:39 (cat meows)