Film Guild Cinema
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The Film Guild Cinema, built in 1929, was a movie house designed by notable architectural theoretician and De Stijl member, Frederick Kiesler.
Kiesler, in writing about the new design for the cinema, billed it as "The first 100% cinema." The cinema, located at 58 W8 St. in Greenwich Village, was replaced by the 8th St. Playhouse, which after meeting with economic failure, was taken over by United Artists, and finally by City Cinemas, until the cinema closed in the early 1990's.[1]
Since then, the building has been re-appropriated by TLA Video, a video rental store specializing in non-mainstream film.
