Underground Cinema 12
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History
'Underground Cinema 12' was the brain child of Cinema Theater manager and programmer Mike Getz. After Movies 'Round Midnight curator John Fles left Los Angeles in 1965 Getz assumed the role of programmer for the series and in 1968 transformed it into Underground Cinema 12, a series that included avant-garde, comedy, nonfiction, erotic, independent and amateur cinema. In 1968 Gene Youngblood began to author a weekly column documenting the series. In the column's first printing Youngblood said that he had decided to regularly cover Underground Cinema 12 to encourage young people to take advantage of the rare opportunities offered by the program. The psychedelic program was designed by the Intermedia Communications Company. In the early 1970s Getz expanded the program to other venues around the country including the World Theatre, 2159 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio, the Valley Art Theatre, 509 Mill Avenue in Tempe, AZ,' the Towne Theatre, Auburn at Myrtle in Sacramento, California and to the Academy, 3721 University Ave San Diego, CA. Each of the venues was described as the community's first 'far out film club.'
[Source: Los Angeles Free Press, April 19 1968]
Screening Venues
Cinema Theatre
1122 North Western Avenue Los Angeles, CA
People
Exhibitions and Screening
- Brand X
- 3 unusual chicks try to get what they really need
- Robert 'Putney Swope' Downey's No More Excuses (20)
- Black Red Tremors in Midnight Space
- Dynamite Chicken
- Genesis III (29)
- Moving Pictures of Nasty Habits
- Electric Climaxes for Thoroughly Spaced Heads
- Life and Vegetables Beer Cans and Balling Dreams & TV (29)
- Meet Da Guys What Made Dis Art
- A Lip Stretching Cure For Those Who've Been Taking Life Too Seriously
- Midnight Mortality for the Beautiful Losers
- Beyond the Ultimate
- New Rock's Rarele Seen Mother Lode
- The Rug-Colored Flacken
- Flesh Trips Through Dream Assassinations
- Abominable & Detestable Crimes Against Nature
- Losing it in L.A. and Finding it in S.F.
- A Tribute to Mike Getz
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Part 2
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Part 1