This is some sort of Music Hall milestone as being perhaps the first independent film feature to play the Hall. Maybe somebody out there who knows more about film distribution and independent features can clarify this. A time of enormous transition and as one can see from the stage show desperation in a world where sadly the Music Hall no longer really belonged. A very depressing film in a depressing year for the Hall.
Curiously, the distributor was preparing to open his own midtown cinema in December of that year on nearby 54th Street, but I guess that “The Christmas Tree” was too important a movie to postpone until then.
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This is some sort of Music Hall milestone as being perhaps the first independent film feature to play the Hall. Maybe somebody out there who knows more about film distribution and independent features can clarify this. A time of enormous transition and as one can see from the stage show desperation in a world where sadly the Music Hall no longer really belonged. A very depressing film in a depressing year for the Hall.
Curiously, the distributor was preparing to open his own midtown cinema in December of that year on nearby 54th Street, but I guess that “The Christmas Tree” was too important a movie to postpone until then.