The Cinematheque

Cinema name : Filmmakers Cinematheque " Film-Makers' Cinematheque was to serve "as the center for theshowing and promoting of non-commercial, avant-garde cinema and the best of the commercial film classics." Mekas described Cinematheque as the "wind's baby." First opening at the New Yorker Theatre in December, 1964, it subsequently moved to 42nd Street and Tenth Avenue, then, in Spring 1965, down to the City Hall Cinema; then, up to Fourth Street, where it never got started, so it opened at the Astor Playhouse, on Lafayette Street, where it stayed until December 1966, when it moved to 41st Street.