MORE About The Cool SENATE Theatre & THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)

 ELECTRIC EYE IN THE SKY

A page from the "Performing Arts Annual 1986" This from my article "Memoirs of a Movie Childhood in Harrisburg's Film Palaces" written for this series of Library of Congress books.

During the 1950s the Senate screened the films of Universal-International which included the new '50s genre, Science Fiction. From left to right in still: Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, and Jeff Morrow.

If you can enlarge this photo you can read in the caption about the impression these films made on me and young movie-goers of the era. (However, the Senate was razed shortly after this article was published).

The small photo is of the Senate's electric eye automatic door which seemed VERY Sci Fi to kids of the period.

Unfortunately, by the time I took these Senate photos the NEON was missing from marquee sign (top).

Excerpt from: PERFORMING ARTS ANNUAL 1986, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Iris Newsom, Editor. Article Text & Captions: COPYRIGHT Ross B. Care