Columbia River Theatre Organ Society

03/08/2026

So very sad to see this instrument go away.

Last Chance to Play and Hear the Cleveland High School Kimball Pipe Organ Saturday, March 14th, 2026Private CRTOS Open Console 10am-12pmPublic Short Convert 2pm Cleveland High School3400 SE 26th Av…

03/08/2026

March 28th, 2026 – 2:00pm

The Cameraman (1928) Saturday, March 28th, 2026 - 2:00pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score live on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. Buster Keaton at his absolute best! The Cameraman is a brilliant, laugh-out-loud silent comedy full of jaw-dropping stunts, impeccable visual gags, and Keaton’s legendary deadpan charm....

The Cameraman (1928) Saturday, March 28th, 2026 – 2:00pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score liv…

02/02/2026

February 28th, 2026 – 2:00pm

The General (1926) Saturday, February 28th, 2026 - 2:00pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ. ****Special 100TH Anniversary Screening of THE GENERAL**** One of the finest and most revered comedies of the silent era….Buster Keaton’s favorite film...the iconic masterpiece of the “Great Stoneface.”...

The General (1926) Saturday, February 28th, 2026 – 2:00pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on…

11/10/2025

Metropolis (1927) Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 - 7:00 pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire performs his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. Fritz Lang's 1927 iconic science-fiction masterpiece…. fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang's personal fascination with the darker side of human nature. Written by Fritz Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and starring Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge....

Metropolis (1927) Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 – 7:00 pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Hollywood organist Dean Lemire performs his original score on the Might…

10/15/2025

Come celebrate 100 years of The Phantom of the Opera!

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Saturday, October 25th, 2025 – 2:00 pm The Hollywood Theatre4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212 Come join us for the 100th Anniversary of The Phantom of t…

04/09/2025

For the scenes with the lions, Charlie Chaplin made some 200 takes, in many of which he was actually inside the lion's cage. His looks of fear are not all merely acting.

03/21/2025

D.W. Griffith saw Lillian Gish using her smile gesture with her fingers and decided to incorporate it into the filming.
See the landmark movie from 1919 2:00 pm tomorrow. Dean Lemire presents his best yet score at the Hollywood's Might Wurlitzer.

12/16/2024

Thanks to all that attended the CRTOS/pipe organ pictures presentation of "Nosferatu" Saturday evening. Another full house! Watch this space for our next silent movie presentation this coming February 2025

12/10/2024

Thanks to all that attended the November showing of Nosferatu, all 354 of you. There will be another presentation of 1922 Nosferatu on Saturday December 14th at 6:30. It is ALREADY sold out.
But watch this space for upcoming films next year.

11/24/2024

It's coming November 30 at 7:00 pm

11/24/2024

Nosferatu trivia: All known prints and negatives were destroyed under the terms of settlement of a lawsuit by Bram Stoker's widow. The film would subsequently resurface through second-generation reels in other countries.