Warren, no. Just Flickr. Flickr offers several options. You can link to the entire page (with space for viewer comments) or else to the image itself inder “all sizes.” I prefer direct linkage to the image in a specific size. Dec. 18 is an example of the whole page. Today I linked directly to the image, a procedure which nobody else seems to have trouble linking to. I’ve tested it after logging off CT and entering it anonymously, also at the public library yesterday. I will ask other people to try it. I prefer doing it that way because it desn’t make my 5,000+ photos and images (family, friends, travel, etc.) instantly available to folks who just came to see the one picture and not my family and personal history. If you have further trouble, just bookmark my Flickr account to find anything you may have missed, though most is not earth-shattering: http://www.flickr.com/photos/italiangerry/
You can even perform an internal search for anything I have, since I tag everything profusely. Most of my posts will deal with Italian cinema publicity. That, and the movies themselves, have been a lifelong passion, as well as RI theatres. I have Flickr sets that are representative of those topics.
Films about classical composers as well as opera films were very popular here in the 1940s and 1950s especially. Here is a DOUBLE BILL of Lucia di Lamermoor and Rossini scheduled for November 1949, after a revival run of the Marx Brothers' duo Animal Crackers and Duck Soup.
In 1963 you could see this double bill of dubbed Italian films, both actually considered very good. They were: On Any Street / La notte brava, Mauro Bolognini, from material by Pier Paolo Pasolini & Mill of the Stone People / Mill of the Stone Women / Il mulino delle donne di pietra, Giorgio Ferroni, 1960. Sexy Elsa Martinelli was a considerable draw at the time.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1967 Oedipus Rex didn’t have its New York commercial first run and American premiere until 1984 here at the Public. Fabiano Canosa often dug up unseen important films such as THIS ONE.
No, Warren. The images work for others. And they worked for me when I went into CT anonymously at the library computer yesterday. I cannot understand the problem you are having. But here is a page link.
The second little theatre at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, the tiny Carnegie Hall Screening Room, was leased by SACIS of Italy and opened a series of Italian films in the late 1980s under the heading of “Cinema Italia – Roberto Rossellini.” In 1987, they played the uncut 4-hour version of Visconti’s 1972 Ludwig. Here is the Variety ad announcing that run. Many other fine Italian films, mostly recent first-runs, played here at that time.
Warren,
I am at a public library computer. Before logging in to make this comment, I entered the CT site anonymously and clicked on the March 6th link of mine you were having trouble with. It worked!!!! How come I got it (without logging in under any user name) and you can’t get it? This I do not understand. It is possible that the problem you are encountering lies elsewhere, though I haven’t a clue where that might be. I think I shall continue to post my occasional photo contributions using the direct link to them on Flickr.
I used to use Photobucket and still have an account, but Flickr has been a much more versatile way to store and share all my photos of all types and create topical sets and have people comment on them and request them for inclusion in topical groups. CT usage has actually been only a small part of it. I really do like Flickr. If I decide to use Photobucket for CT purposes, I will certainly keep Flickr, where I now have well over 5,000 photos….family, travel, cinema, old postcards etc. I’ll just have to link to the page containing the photo, rather than to the photo itself. With regard to your own great photo-posts, I’ve noticed that the Photobucket links on some of the older ones no longer work.
OK, they are the same images on both dates. The first is a direct link to the pic itself; the second is a link to the page containing the photo. As I just said on the Criterion (1st) page, Flickr links now only seem to work if they are to entire pages rather than individual image URLs. I’m sorry about this development. I don’t know if anyone else has encountered this problem or if I am doing something wrong. It must be affecting many of my past posts here. Oh well, I’m running out of material to add anyway.
Yes, Warren, I always hit “preview” first and the previews work. But from now on I will submit links to the whole scrapbook page rather than the actual photo’s URL as I have long been doing without problems resulting. There is something askew here, and I can’t figure it out yet, but I think Flickr is now denying certain kinds of direct links to the photos while allowing links to entire Flickr pages.
Those are really nice pictures. I’ve only seen a couple of them before and never the former church interior. I’d love to see the interior as a theatre, either as the Rialto or as Scenic Temple, but alas I don’t think there are any. To create a hyperlink, you put [url =, then “quotes around the actual url http: etc.”, then closing bracket ], then words you want in blue, then [/url]. In case you need to do it in the future. Many people don’t bother anyway.
Ming,
Post the pictures on a photo server. Photobucket (www.photobucket.com) will do. I use Flickr (www.flickr.com) because of its versatility in displaying photos and sets to other audiences. Then take the photo’s URL, paste it here, and voilà , it should link to the photo on your server. I can explain more if you contact me at italiangerry(at)gmail.com. My Flickr set for RI movie theatres is HERE. Would you email me the pictures to look at?
On Saturday, March 22, the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, as it is now called, beautifully restored at a cost of $31,000,000, will host a free open house from noon to 5 P.M. This is a great opportunity for people in the area to tour the theatre and see what can be done with great “cinema treasures” of the past.
I saw a wonderful revival showing of Ingmar Bergman’s Monika here a few weeks ago in a magnificent restored 35mm print. This is the Brattle at its best!
Warren, no. Just Flickr. Flickr offers several options. You can link to the entire page (with space for viewer comments) or else to the image itself inder “all sizes.” I prefer direct linkage to the image in a specific size. Dec. 18 is an example of the whole page. Today I linked directly to the image, a procedure which nobody else seems to have trouble linking to. I’ve tested it after logging off CT and entering it anonymously, also at the public library yesterday. I will ask other people to try it. I prefer doing it that way because it desn’t make my 5,000+ photos and images (family, friends, travel, etc.) instantly available to folks who just came to see the one picture and not my family and personal history. If you have further trouble, just bookmark my Flickr account to find anything you may have missed, though most is not earth-shattering:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/italiangerry/
You can even perform an internal search for anything I have, since I tag everything profusely. Most of my posts will deal with Italian cinema publicity. That, and the movies themselves, have been a lifelong passion, as well as RI theatres. I have Flickr sets that are representative of those topics.
The 1965 film about the life of Pope John XXIII, And There Came a Man, directed by Ermanno Olmi and starring Rod Steiger, opened here in April 1968.
American premiere of Gillo Pontecorvo’s Kapo 1964.
Films about classical composers as well as opera films were very popular here in the 1940s and 1950s especially. Here is a DOUBLE BILL of Lucia di Lamermoor and Rossini scheduled for November 1949, after a revival run of the Marx Brothers' duo Animal Crackers and Duck Soup.
A very hairy lady was the subject of Marco Ferreri’s The Ape Woman, shown here in 1964.
Belated American premiere of a French and Italian film on the same 1965 program. Rouch and Fellini.
In 1963 you could see this double bill of dubbed Italian films, both actually considered very good. They were: On Any Street / La notte brava, Mauro Bolognini, from material by Pier Paolo Pasolini & Mill of the Stone People / Mill of the Stone Women / Il mulino delle donne di pietra, Giorgio Ferroni, 1960. Sexy Elsa Martinelli was a considerable draw at the time.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1967 Oedipus Rex didn’t have its New York commercial first run and American premiere until 1984 here at the Public. Fabiano Canosa often dug up unseen important films such as THIS ONE.
No, Warren. The images work for others. And they worked for me when I went into CT anonymously at the library computer yesterday. I cannot understand the problem you are having. But here is a page link.
The second little theatre at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, the tiny Carnegie Hall Screening Room, was leased by SACIS of Italy and opened a series of Italian films in the late 1980s under the heading of “Cinema Italia – Roberto Rossellini.” In 1987, they played the uncut 4-hour version of Visconti’s 1972 Ludwig. Here is the Variety ad announcing that run. Many other fine Italian films, mostly recent first-runs, played here at that time.
Here is a postcard ad promoting the opening of Lina Wertmüller’s Summer Night at Cinema II in June 1987.
Warren,
I am at a public library computer. Before logging in to make this comment, I entered the CT site anonymously and clicked on the March 6th link of mine you were having trouble with. It worked!!!! How come I got it (without logging in under any user name) and you can’t get it? This I do not understand. It is possible that the problem you are encountering lies elsewhere, though I haven’t a clue where that might be. I think I shall continue to post my occasional photo contributions using the direct link to them on Flickr.
I used to use Photobucket and still have an account, but Flickr has been a much more versatile way to store and share all my photos of all types and create topical sets and have people comment on them and request them for inclusion in topical groups. CT usage has actually been only a small part of it. I really do like Flickr. If I decide to use Photobucket for CT purposes, I will certainly keep Flickr, where I now have well over 5,000 photos….family, travel, cinema, old postcards etc. I’ll just have to link to the page containing the photo, rather than to the photo itself. With regard to your own great photo-posts, I’ve noticed that the Photobucket links on some of the older ones no longer work.
OK, they are the same images on both dates. The first is a direct link to the pic itself; the second is a link to the page containing the photo. As I just said on the Criterion (1st) page, Flickr links now only seem to work if they are to entire pages rather than individual image URLs. I’m sorry about this development. I don’t know if anyone else has encountered this problem or if I am doing something wrong. It must be affecting many of my past posts here. Oh well, I’m running out of material to add anyway.
Yes, Warren, I always hit “preview” first and the previews work. But from now on I will submit links to the whole scrapbook page rather than the actual photo’s URL as I have long been doing without problems resulting. There is something askew here, and I can’t figure it out yet, but I think Flickr is now denying certain kinds of direct links to the photos while allowing links to entire Flickr pages.
Of Wayward Love, shown in 1964.
Try this link if my above one doesn’t work for you.
Warren, I can’t explain it. It works for me here now.
Ad for the 1915 Italian film Christus which played here in 1917.
Those are really nice pictures. I’ve only seen a couple of them before and never the former church interior. I’d love to see the interior as a theatre, either as the Rialto or as Scenic Temple, but alas I don’t think there are any. To create a hyperlink, you put [url =, then “quotes around the actual url http: etc.”, then closing bracket ], then words you want in blue, then [/url]. In case you need to do it in the future. Many people don’t bother anyway.
Anna Magnani at the Trans-Lux 60th on Madison in 1953.
Ming,
Post the pictures on a photo server. Photobucket (www.photobucket.com) will do. I use Flickr (www.flickr.com) because of its versatility in displaying photos and sets to other audiences. Then take the photo’s URL, paste it here, and voilà , it should link to the photo on your server. I can explain more if you contact me at italiangerry(at)gmail.com. My Flickr set for RI movie theatres is HERE. Would you email me the pictures to look at?
Beat me to it! I was just about to do it. The gala re-opening is scheduled for March 14. Their website bears repeating HERE.
On Saturday, March 22, the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, as it is now called, beautifully restored at a cost of $31,000,000, will host a free open house from noon to 5 P.M. This is a great opportunity for people in the area to tour the theatre and see what can be done with great “cinema treasures” of the past.
I saw a wonderful revival showing of Ingmar Bergman’s Monika here a few weeks ago in a magnificent restored 35mm print. This is the Brattle at its best!