100 years of the regent

The Regent Theater, the local theater here in Allegan, just celebrated its 100th anniversary!  In order to recognize the special achievement, they had a centennial celebration.  Everyone was invited to a special screening and talk.  Parker, the Allegan Community Events head, went up and shared a bit of history and then showed some cartoon shorts by Max Fleischer (which you can watch here) from around the time that the theater opened.  Hoping to show the first movie they ever played at the theater, Parker said that he had been on a hunt for the past few months but it seems that it has been lost to time and no longer exists in any form.  Crazy!  So instead he selected one that they showed during the first year it was open.  We got to watch Harold Lloyd's 'Bumping into Broadway' (which you can actually watch in it's entirety here!)  It was really fun to celebrate my favorite movie theater with others in town who love it just as much as me- I only wish I had brought Ledger along, he would have loved those cartoons!
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