The November 1971 Electric programme as a poster in the style of the Scala film club it went on to inspire.
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The affordable Dr Phibes
Photographs from 1963 show Vincent Price looking at Art in Portobello market in the early Sixties with co-star Jane Asher, while they were filming ‘Masque of the Red Death’. Price had a long connection to Fine Art in London and brought culture to the American people through his ‘Vincent Price Collection’ in the Sears-Roebuck catalogue.
Emil Umann, the man who invented midnight movies?
A four-week run in August 1938 of an all-day, all-night double-bill of Universal’s original ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ at the Regina-Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles may have provided the template for midnight movies in the 1970s, and for cosplay today.