Fox Theatre

This guide to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta follows Bob Van Camp, the house organist who spent twenty-four years, from nineteen sixty-three to nineteen eighty-seven, rising on a mechanical lift from a chamber beneath the stage to play the Mighty Mo, a custom organ built by the M.P. Moller company with pipes divided across five chambers. You'll hear how that same trick dates back to opening night in December nineteen twenty-nine, and how Van Camp's job was never to be a star but to be reliable, filling silences and cueing newsreels for audiences of thousands. Look toward the stage and picture the lift shaft still running beneath it today.