Last used for worship in the 19th century, the space housed a still during Prohibition and a raincoat and shower-curtain factory after World War II.
The total-publicity machine has pulled away any vestige of a curtain between the cinematic factory and the results on-screen.
As part of their substantial awards push this year, the marketers at Pixar (another category the company excels at) decided to pull back the curtain on the magic factory a bit.
Though they had worked in banking before, they survived in Taipei by selling steamed buns on the street for several years until getting jobs in a textile plant, eventually opening their own curtain and upholstery fabric factory.
A former curtain inspector in a Yugoslav factory, Mr. Hoxha recalled, "People waited for us at the airport as if we were important people".
A young man called Bill stands in the shadows behind a curtain at a converted paintworks factory in Bristol, now a TV studio.
Already, Macedonia has lured away a textile factory that stitched curtains for the Austrian market.
The safest bet is a retailer such as John Lewis, which produces it's own-brand duvets, pillows, weave fabric and curtains at Herbert Parkinson, the John Lewis-owned factory in Darwen, Lancashire.
In Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Baťa, the founder of a worldwide shoe-making empire, used the central lift as his office, while the curtain-walled Van Nelle food-processing factory in Rotterdam was perpetually lit by electricity – a beacon of modernity, reflected in the water below.
In the hastily curtained off backstage area at Sound Factory, the party is well underway.
Martin Bustos, a Mexican immigrant, works two jobs, in a factory that makes shower curtains and at the U.P.S. warehouse at nearby Stewart International Airport.
