Cinema Houston – the book and this sister website – would not have happened without the help of a great many people, either by their use of photos, stories and reminisces, assistance in securing important bits of information, and many other acts of kindness. For this, I thank you.

• Lynn Ashby
• Jan Bettis
• Earl Blair
• Ray M. Boriski
  
• Bryan Boudreaux
  
• Chad Browning (Regal Entertainment Group)
  
• Nancy Lavender Bryan
• Jim Burr
  
• Alfred Cervantes (Houston Film Commission)
  
• John Coles
  
• Keith Curtis
  
• Al Davis
  
• Mike Dean
  
• Louis DeRose
  
• Cary Dier
  
• Joel Draut
  
• James E. Fisher
  
• Alvin Guggenheim
  
• Tom Hannegan
  
• Ed Henderson
  
• Houston Business Journal
  
• Houston Chronicle
  
• Houston Post
  
• Houston Press
  
• Ray Hugger
  
• Evelyn Hunt

• Von Johnson
  
• Jim Koehn
  
• Gus and Sharon Kopriva
  
• Clare Lagroue
• Mary J. LaMotte
  
• The Leader
  
• Carroll A. Lewis
  
• Dan Lubbock
  
• Metropolitan Civic News
  
• Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library
  
• Jeffrey Mills
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston Archives
  
• Robert Mireles
  
• Bob Mortensen
  
• Greg Neumann
  
• Jim Ohmart
  
• Charles Paine
  
• Pasadena Citizen
  
• Public News
  
• Rice University Fondren Library Woodson Research Center
• Parker and Becky Riggs
  
• Lyn Salerno
  
• Lois Samford

• Steve Schmid
  
• Tom Seiler
  
• Story Sloane III
  
• Anthony Smith
  
• Rick Staudt
  
• Ron Stone
  
• Bryan Talley
  
• University of Houston Special Collections
  
• University of Texas Center for American History
  
• University of Texas Harry Ransom Center
  
• Jack Valenti
  
• Gary Warwick
  
• Dick Willson and the Houston Area Theatre Organ Society
  
• Al and Bettye Welling
  
• Ken Welling
  
• Shawn Welling
  
• Vince Welling
  
• Pamela Winfrey
  
• Al Zarzana

All my love and thanks beyond measure to my wife, Denise, and to Lauryn and Dylan. You too, Disney.