ARCADE

A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY KURT VINCENT AND IRENE CHIN

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Mark is a regular at Next Level in Brooklyn and a great designer. Third Strike is beloved arcade fighting game with some of the greatest art and gameplay in fighting games. Great stuff!
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The New York Times covered the Chinatown Fair chicken saga twice this week. Good stuff! Wait until you see what we have dug up for the movie. The chicken story has yet to be told….. :-)
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Pictures from our movie making adventure.

A nice blog post about finding out Chinatown Fair is reopening.

This is a still frame from footage we shot on March 14, 2012. Owen Strock and I were shooting b-roll for the movie around Chinatown Fair when we noticed the security gate at 8 Mott Street raised. Earlier in the week, Sam, the previous owner of Chinatown Fair, told me someone was re-opening the arcade. But you hear a lot of things. I wasn’t sure how likely it was happening. Now we know. A group of men were moving some of the old games back inside. One of the men introduced himself as Lonnie. He told me they were hired to move in the games and empty the trash that remained inside. I spoke with Henry Cen, co-owner of Next Level and integral part of the old Chinatown Fair, and he told me a guy named Lonnie was reopening the arcade at 8 Mott Street. I am guessing the Lonnie I met is the Lonnie reopening the arcade. It’s interesting to note that if this is the same Lonnie, it isn’t the first time he has been involved with a beloved NYC institution. Lonnie told me he used to bartend at his uncle’s place, Max’s Kansas City.
I love how the story of Chinatown Fair keeps going. I suspect it will never truly end.
-Kurt
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The Chinatown Fair, 1944. It’s official.

We shot all around Chinatown this week. Definitely captured the neighborhood. Here is our director of photography, Owen Strock, getting the very necessary shot of duck and chicken hanging in the window. You can barely see it, but in the background is a cook in his chef whites chopping meat. Owen is amazing at rack focusing, which he nailed on this shot.
We are in the middle of a lot of shooting. I will be documenting the process. Check our Flickr page and Facebook (www.facebook.com/arcademovie) for more!
-Kurt

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My only picture from my last visit to Chinatown Fair.