Raymond Rohauer
- 1987 Curator
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Biography
Rohauer was the programmer for the Coronet Theatre, one of Los Angeles' most popular art house cinemas, during the 1950s. While programming the Coronet, Rohauer also began to work in film distribution and acquired prints of many of the films that he screened at the theater, pulling them from circulation in order to add them to his personal collection. In September of 1958 he was subpoenaed by an Assembly subcommittee investigating pornography. Rohauer refused to supply the eight requested films declaring 'The day is not here yet when that which I exhibit at my theater is subject to the whim of self appointed guardians of the public morals' Moved to New York where he curated the Galley of Modern Art. [Source: William K. Everson 'King of Film Freebooters in Grand Street No. 49, 1994]