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00:00Early theaters were built for the architecture and the beauty and to just transform people
00:08to another place.
00:09They had this few minutes in the dark in this beautiful cathedral.
00:14Today it's just like advertising, plastic seats and crap.
00:17If you're going to put a theater, never mind five theaters, in a town of 300 people, then
00:31you're going to have to make it so people talk about it.
00:34Five theaters attached to a guy's house in the middle of nowhere, and you sort of wonder
00:39what is this place?
00:40Who would build something this stupid?
00:41When we came, we thought it would be probably something with like a bed sheet on the wall
00:47in his garage.
00:48When I go to the movies, I want to go to something that I'm going to come out and feel wow.
01:04I skipped dinner to have popcorn.
01:07You guys like popcorn, don't you?
01:10It cost me $75 a week to feed the bear.
01:13If you don't give him food, he's in here putting garbage piles.
01:17I started building the theater in 75, and we actually got it open in 79, and it was
01:23just a single screen.
01:24In 86, I decided, well, if we're going to sit around for one little theater, we'll add
01:28another one.
01:30The last couple of weeks, it's been maybe two or three people in a theater, you know,
01:34because starting next week, it's one show, period.
01:36That's it.
01:37Our audience has declined over the years, and I realize that the way things are changing,
01:42there will come a day when movies won't be practical.
01:45Time is an interesting thing.
01:47Can you travel in it?
01:49Probably be fun to go to the future and see how this all turns out.
02:16It's very strange.
02:17It's, yeah, it's a strange story.
02:19What the future holds for that place, I don't know.
02:23Figure something out.
02:25Show must go on.