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Ciro's (later known as Ciro's Le Disc) was a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California owned by William Wilkerson. [1] Opened in 1940, Ciro's became a popular nightspot for celebrities. The nightclub closed in 1960 and was reopened as a rock club in 1965. After a few name changes, it eventually became The Comedy Store in 1972.
Videodisc (or video disc) is a general term for a laser- or stylus-readable random-access disc that contains both audio and analog video signals recorded in an analog form. Typically, it is a reference to any such media that predates the mainstream popularity of the DVD format.
The Comedy Store was opened in April 1972 by comedians Sammy Shore (1927–2019), and Rudy De Luca.The building was formerly the home of Club Seville (1935), [1] later, Ciro's (1940–1957), a popular Hollywood nightclub owned by William Wilkerson, and later Ciro's Le Disc, [1] a rock and roll venue, [2] where the Byrds were discovered in 1964.
"Le Disko" was featured in the 2010 Sundance film, "Welcome to the Rileys". "Le Disko" was featured on an episode of The Real World: Sydney. It was featured on the British programme Waterloo Road. Also featured in the soundtrack of the video game Burnout Dominator. It appeared on an episode of So You Think You Can Dance in Lacey Schwimmer's solo.
Romana Film was an Italian film production company. [1] Founded in 1946 by the Sicilian Fortunato Misiano, the company was based in Rome.It made films in a variety of popular genres such as Swashbucklers, Peplum and Eurospy films, turning out roughly a hundred films before the company ceased production in the late 1960s.
Compact Disc is still the de facto standard for audio recordings, although its place for other multimedia recordings and optical data storage has largely been superseded by DVD. DVD (initially an acronym of "Digital Video Disc", then backronymed as "Digital Versatile Disc" and officially just "DVD") was the mass market successor to CD.
Throughout the film are flashbacks to Ciro's early life in Naples. Ciro had been rescued as a baby from the 1980 Naples earthquake in which his family had been killed. As a child he was sent to an orphanage, falling under the influence of Bruno, a small time criminal who controlled a street gang of child thieves, and collaborated with Neapolitan gangster and smuggler "Blackbird" ('"o Merlo").
The disc was made out of ordinary photographic film (hence the format's name), which was mounted in a caddy for playback, much like the RCA Selectavision CED and VHD videodisc systems. Laserfilm players were chiefly manufactured in Japan by Sansui on an OEM basis to McDonnell-Douglas' specifications and branded with their logotype , and weren't ...