Inside the Outside Lands

Tom Wyrsch and Strephon Taylor, the duo who created the Remembering Playland documentary that was so successful last year, will unveil another film focused on a San Francisco amusement center at the ocean’s edge: Sutro’s: the Palace at Lands End.

Opening at the Balboa Theater on November 4, 2011 for a one-week run, this full-length documentary film is about Adolph Sutro’s privately-owned swimming and museum complex built in the late 19th century.

Once the world’s largest swimming pool establishment, Sutro Baths switched to ice skating before burning down in 1966. The ruins remain today. Journey back in time to revisit Sutro Baths when it was in full operation. See: The Seven Pools, Sutro Railway, Merry Way, Sutro’s Cliff House, Ice Skating Rink, Egyptian Mummy Museum, Tom Thumb Exhibit, Musee Mecanique, Torture Museum, Lord’s Last Supper, Ito, Giggling Ghost, 1963 & 1966 Fires, Sutro Ruins, and much, much more. A nostalgic trip back in time told by historians and the people that were there through interviews, film footage, and hundreds of photographs.

More info at the film’s official Web site, and the Balboa Theater’s site.