16mm theater in a storefront owned by exploitation film producer Robert Lippert. The theater screened psychedelic, experimental, and underground films that catered to the counter-culture centered on the Strip. Experimental filmmakers such Shirley Clarke, Jack Smith, Robert Kramer, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Thomas Reichman, Robert Downey and Kenneth Anger had their work shown.

By mid-1969 Cinematheque 16 had become a porno operation.