Cinema Art, later known as the Blue Mouse, was the first venue for art and foreign films in Salt Lake City. The theater was originally a screening room and was located in the basement of the building.  The theater's seats came from a shoe-selling emporium.  The auditorium had 120 seats and was "stretched out like a long hallway."^[1]

1. "On New Theaters, Indiana Jones and Skyrocketing Prices", Deseret News, 4 June 1989, page E10