Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>The 1938 Ukrainian-language film played here in 1940.</p>
  • <p>The term “opera house” in the United States was used rather loosely as opera houses had live and filmed entertainment that ran the gamut from Shakespeare plays to circus acts. But the Verdi Hall in Philadelphia’s Little Italy pictured here was dedicated to Italian-language opera for its formative years of 1905 to World War I before moving to movies. Ambitious in pre-Metropolitan Opera House Philly.</p>
  • <p>Vintage photo of the Kinopanorama in Kyiv, Ukraine.</p>
  • <p>February 1939 ad in a Ukrainian American newspaper. It publicizes the movie “Cossacks in Exile” at the Belmont. The movie was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and was based on a well-loved Ukrainian folk opera.</p>
  • <p>Vintage exterior.</p>
  • <p>Cinema Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Google image.</p>
  • <p>In 1938.</p>
  • <p>October 25, 2001.</p>
  • <p>October 25, 2001.</p>
  • <p>Opened in December 1950.</p>
  • <p>April 21, 1932. Ad for Fritz Lang’s “M” in La Semaine à Paris.</p>
  • <p>“L'Atalante” was first released in 1934.</p>
  • <p>July 18, 2014.</p>
  • <p>November 7, 1955.</p>
  • <p>Danièle Parola in “Amours de Minuit,” 1931, at the Laurier on and after February 28, 1934. She looked like Marlene Dietrich in “Blue Angel.”</p>
  • <p>Photo shows children queuing outside the Palace Kinema in Pilmuir Street Dunfermline for the cinema’s annual ‘Kinema Tea Show’. The manager, George Gilchrist, can be seen on the left. Entry was by a donation of a packet of tea which was then distributed to ‘Housebound Old People’.</p>
  • <p>1947 LIFE Magazine photo.</p>
  • <p>October 11, 1940, as the Cinecittà. Review in NY Daily News of “Carnival of Venice.”</p>
  • <p>March 15, 1939. Boston mayor at the opening of the Telepix the day before, March 14, 1939.</p>
  • <p>From YouTube video, 1960’s.</p>
  • <p>Italian silent film shown here in 1923.</p>