roger: for me it's my second home, sort of like my church. joe: in the church of rhoten hemp system actually where ropes and sandbags. the long walk up to the projection room. joe: sure, the theater now has a digital projector, but rhoten prefers the old film. roger: this is our old projectors. i didn't want to get rid of them. i still wanna be able to show film. a lot of years i've been up here in this booth. you just listen to the sounds, you watch the flickering light. i don't know, there's just something special about it. joe: "fugitive lovers" was the first film to play here. ronald reagan and other stars turned up for the 1941 premiere of "sea wolf." these days, the theater stages more live performances than films as the movie-going public has dimmed. roger: every day you see another theater closing, and that's because people got used to streaming movies at home. joe: the sebastiani theater bears the name of its founder, samuele sebastiani, an italian immigrant who opened a winery, hotels, and this theater in his adopted town of sonoma. sam sebastiani: you know, he