...and the curtain closed.  What had he just seen?  He had sat in a trance for the entire film and now that it had ended he felt like an eternity had passed.  He glanced again at the reel canister still…

     The Manager left the musicians to their preparations and headed toward his office to await the new reel.  The arrival of the first new feature that Cinema Finis was premiering was imminent and for some reason the expectation carried…

     The arrival of the first new reel to be premiered at Cinema Finis was fast approaching.  It had been fast approaching for what seemed like years to the The Manager.  He chuckled at the hyperbole of that thought.  Years…