Main Street Cinema, Movie theater in Kew Gardens Hills, US.
Main Street Cinema is a small movie theater on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Its single hexagonal room has six screens mounted on the walls, showing animated shorts continuously, with standing room only and no seats.
Main Street Cinema opened with Disneyland on July 17, 1955, screening silent films starring Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. In the 1970s these gave way to Disney animation shorts on six screens, with Steamboat Willie (1928) always among them. In 2010 opening-day footage marked the park's 55th anniversary, and in July 2025 a film on the Sherman Brothers, The Last Verse, was added for the 70th anniversary.
The cinema's name and marquee recall a small-town movie house on Main Street, U.S.A. Since August 2026 it has screened the modern Mickey Mouse shorts made by Paul Rudish, among them Croissant de Triomphe and Tokyo Go, shown on several screens inside a single hexagonal room.
The cinema is a single hexagonal room on Main Street, U.S.A., with standing room only and no seats, so visitors watch the six screens on their feet. Films run continuously, so there is no fixed start time to plan around; guests typically drop in for a few minutes while walking down the street.
The cinema's six screens each show a different short, and five of them run silent while a recorded musical accompaniment plays. Only Steamboat Willie (1928) keeps its original sound, introduced by a 1950s reissue preface noting when the short was made.
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