Fly Through of the Fox Theater in St. Louis

Armando Gallegos and I were asked to assist KSDK Channel 5 with drone video for a story about the Fox Theater's 90th Anniversary. This is some of the video we shot. Armando flew an FPV CineDrone while I flew the DJI Phantom 4 Pro.

[@lkrupp215]

Almost got motion sickness watching this! Fantastic footage! St. Louis has a real gem in the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Thank God Leon and Mary Strauss saved this landmark and turned it into one of the premier venues in the country. The Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ shown in the footage is also a landmark. Five “Fox Specials” were built by the Wurlitzer company for the five Fox theaters built in the late 1920s. The St. Louis Fox Wurlitzer is one of only two still in their original theaters and the ONLY one still playing after 90 years. It is meticulously maintained in its original condition by Al Haker, chief mechanical/electrical magician of the St. Louis Theatre Organ Society.

[@johnnysullivan436]

My favorite venue in the STL

[@bobgoodwin2832]

Traveling through St. Louis, my friend and I visited the Fox Theatre one day in the early 1970s when there about 3 people in that vast auditorium watching "Debby Does Dallas". When the elderly usher (in his formerly grand, but now very worn uniform) took our tickets and found out that we we had stopped by to see "his" theatre (not the movie), his eyes lit up and we were treated to a truly grand tour from the lowest basement level all the way to the projection booth. That old gentleman made our day and, I believe, we made his.

[@bjrizen2188]

Now this was cool!

[@z1anonly]

Bravo! :)

[@robynhickey1457]

My father-in-law probably saw every inch of the Fox. I know he saw the ball light from the inside when he cleaned it. He was a maintenance man there....Tom Hickey Sr.

[@auntjenifer7774]

It feels like you are a spirit or ghost flying through time and the theater symaltaniusly.

[@johnnyjames7139]

Would have been nice to have theatre organ music.

[@auntjenifer7774]

Learn to play the keys man and then get digital organ software or something and play for your own enjoyment ?

[@willstadter2612]

Hello there. My name is Will and i have a dream to develop a broadway musical at this theatre. It's name is "Clifford's puppy days". hope my dream comes true soon.