General Cinema in White settlement Jr demoltion Texas 12/23/2009

[pegbars]

I serviced the projection booth there once.

[Shawnpaulstewart]

Thanks for posting this video. I used to work at this exact same theater from 1983 to 1988. It was my very first job in high school. I remember the address well: General Cinema 5 (Unit 435), 7601 Scott Street. I worked every job there from doorman, to concessions, to popcorn popper. I’ve still got closets full of movie posters (“The Breakfast Club,” 1985) to prove it.

[Shawnpaulstewart]

Man, I’ve got a lot of stories I can tell you about this place: crazy managers, hanky panky in the projection booth, near-death adventures. It all happened, and it’s all true. In fact, I wrote a couple of stories about this theater. One of them is a little kid’s book, “Donny and the Doorman’s Nightmare,” self-published at Lulu.com. There’s a sample selection from the story on my WordPress blog. E-mail me on my YouTUBE channel if you’d like the link.

[Shawnpaulstewart]

This story was written in 1984, several years before the now famous “GCC Candy Band” made its first on-screen appearance (courtesy of George Lucas’ ILM) in the late ‘80s. Somewhere in my closet, there’s a couple of videos of the inside of this theater, featuring an old friend and fellow employee named Geronimo. Yes, that’s his real name.

[danhostler1985]

@Shawnpaulstewart Do you have a way you could possibly digitize those videos and post them on here? That footage would be gold to us GCC guys, so rare.

[Shawnpaulstewart]

@danhostler1985 I’m working on it. I’ve got about an hour’s worth of footage. It would be a really cool to have an inside and outside record of this old movie theater. Meanwhile, you can read some of the children’s book, and see some of the storyboards, at shawnsshorts(dot)wordpress(dot­)com. Just click on the “Stories” tab.

[danhostler1985]

@Shawnpaulstewart Thank you so much, that would be awesome! And I am checking out the stories on your site right now =]

[Shawnpaulstewart]

And somewhere I have 16 mm test footage for “Donny and the Doorman’s Nightmare.” The pictures you see in the children’s book were originally storyboards, since it was intended as a pre-feature short film. I sent the script to the then-president of General Cinema Corporation. He loved it. Too bad we couldn’t make the actual short film.

[RQVOutdoorMoovies]

We've all looked at an empty space, remembering what was once there. Witnessing the demolition of a place full of memories is rare. We go to work, live our livers, the bulldozers roll in, and GENERAL CINEMAS is gone. These beautifully filmed images are a spectacular reminder that this place did, indeed, at one time exist. Two Video Suggestions 1: snack bar oddity AND 2: weird drive in moment...Taping demos are hard, I know.Sdorn100, these are A+ shots! Right place right time! Good job.

[yogafan6500]

Great video about the demise of a movie theater. Sad but true.

[miiwii93]

HADOUKEN!

[everythingexecptpu99]

when and why did it close

[dafunkymex]

For a person who loves working at my movie theater...this is the saddest and scariest thing to watch...

[214scifi]

R.I.P. General Cinema.

[BrooklynBaller101]

ok wat up with the hose its not gonna catch on fire so y bother using the hose

[Thepylot78]

@BrooklynBaller101 They spray the water to keep the dust down

[RQVOutdoorMoovies]

Awsome video. Congratulations.

[Donovan448]

I have finished the General Cinema 5 (Scott Street) tribute. Thanks for giving me permission. You can view it at my donovan448 youtube site.

[danhostler1985]

Thank you for posting this video, I miss this place.