Franklin is the home of the Zeotrope cinema . The Zeotrope is not one of your major cinema complexes with a parking lot handling thousands of cars, lots of plastic pizzaz and bank upon bank of movies. It is, so to speak, the end of the line. The building that houses the Zeotrope was probably built in this century but not after 1950. The building houses various other commercial establishments - a martial arts studio, a Chinese restaurant, and a small shop vending premier hot dogs.
All shows are three dollars.
Very simply, long after all other theaters in the Boston area had long ceased showing Anastasia they continue to run it in their Saturday and Sunday matinees. I keep expecting that surely the end will come but it does not. Even with the release of the video it keeps showing. It keeps drawing an audience. It doesn't pack the theatre but it draws a steady crowd of parents and small children - and me.