On the corner of W Sheridan Avenue and N Lee Avenue in Film Row, you have reached the Oklahoma Film Exchange, a worker-owned microcinema inside the Paramount Building. You’re looking at the Paramount Building, once tied to Paramount Pictures and home to the last remaining film exchange screening room in the United States. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this small screening room in 1919, built by the Oklahoma Specialty Film Company to service local theater operators, before the Paramount Film Distributing Corporation acquired and renamed the building.
In the early 2000s that same room opened to the public as the one‑room Paramount Reel Art Cinema. You will feel echoes of recent upheaval here: the cinema closed in March of 2020 during the COVID‑19 pandemic, then reopened on June 18, 2021 as Rodeo Cinema on Film Row, only to see that operation close in the summer of 2025. Facing imminent decommission, an Indiegogo campaign titled SAVE FILM ROW: America’s Last Screening Room was launched by OFX in August of 2025, seeking $100,000 to fund the acquisition.
Notice the Paramount Building facade at the corner of W Sheridan and N Lee, where OFX's Indiegogo campaign now races to save America's last screening room.