Last Updated: 3/15/25

ALL SECRET CINEMA PRESENTATIONS ARE SHOWN IN 16mm (or larger!) FILM ON A GIANT SCREEN (NOT VIDEO...NOT EVER!)

Since 1992, the Secret Cinema has been the Philadelphia area’s premiere floating repertory cinema series, bringing hundreds of unique programs to nightclubs, bars, coffee houses, museums, open fields, colleges, art galleries, bookstores, and sometimes even theaters and film festivals. Drawing on its own large private film archive (as well as other collections), the Secret Cinema attempts to explore the uncharted territory and the genres that fall between the cracks, with programs devoted to educational and industrial films, cult and exploitation features, cartoons, rare television, local history, home movies, erotic films, politically incorrect material, and the odd Hollywood classic. As long as it exists on real celluloid, that is—Secret Cinema screenings never use video/digital projection. While mainly based in Philadelphia, the Secret Cinema has also brought programming to other cities and countries.

Comedy Shorts

for Chestnut Hill Film Group/Woodmere Museum

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
7:00 pm
Admission: FREE (donation suggested)

Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
(215) 247-0476

The Secret Cinema will return to the Woodmere Museum on Tuesday, March 18, to present a unique program of Comedy Shorts, and is part of the museum's regular Tuesday Nights at the Movies series, as presented by the Chestnut Hill Film Group.

The selection of classic comedy shorts celebrates the timeless appeal of vintage comedy -- including films of Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, George Burns and Gracie Allen, plus animated cartoons from Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Max Fleischer. Not to mention films starring Walter Catlett, Tom Kennedy, Pete Smith and Shemp Howard (without the other Stooges)!

There will be one complete screening, at 7:00 pm. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged.

FUTURE SECRET CINEMA EVENTS (more info soon):