The Old School Labia Theatre, the oldest independent art house cinema in South Africa, began in the ballroom of the Italian Embassy in 1949 with live performances and became a four-screen cinema in the 1970s. It almost bit the dust a couple years ago when film distribution went digital, but an immensely successful crowd-sourcing appeal saved the day. Female anatomy, BTW, has nothing to do with the theater's name. The Labias were the aristocratic Italian family who supported the original stage theater.

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