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

Jr's was hired to demolish this structure In white settlement texas which is west of Ft Worth

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[danhostler1985]

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

[214scifi]

R.I.P. General Cinema.

[pegbars]

I serviced the projection booth there once. 

[danhostler1985]

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

[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 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]

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.

[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.