Surviving Movies at The SCALA (1990 TV Doc.) 📺
British television documentary (Michael Clifford 1990) showcasing London's most infamous and influential repertory cinema, the Scala. It specialised in cult movies, music films, horror, Kung Fu and LGBT+ cinema. The Scala showed a different double-bill every day with Saturday All-Nighters, and its audience was as diverse as its repertoire.
'The Pope of Trash', filmmaker John Waters, says "The Scala had magic. It was like joining a club — a very secret club, like a biker gang or something… It's like they were a country club for criminals and lunatics and people that were high… which is a good way to see movies".
https://londonist.com/london/film/scala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(club)
✂ After the first 4 minutes I was forced to mute the sound for about 30 seconds due to a musical copyright claim. FYI It was "Apache" by The Shadows.
🛒 If you've read this far down then you'll probably enjoy JANE GILES' massive book "SCALA CINEMA 1978-1993" (FAB Press 2018) ánd the DVD documentary "SCALA!!! Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits" (B.F.I. 2023).