Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>With more than 600 seats, the Provincetown Theater was a coming-of-age statement for the town when it opened in 1919. It looked like a big-city cinema, a solid work of masonry in a town of lumber, unabashed in identifying itself in big chiseled letters under the exterior proscenium arch.</p>
  • <p>July 20, 1961</p>
  • <p>October 31, 1961. The run for “La Dolce Vita” was extended before being shown yet again for another week or more at the Art Cinema. It was probably one of the largest audiences for a movie in this small town where films played typically for one to three days. The subject matter truly affected the residents and summer visitors.</p>
  • <p>A 1925 movie program…a century ago.</p>
  • <p>July 16, 1931</p>
  • <p>The Independent Film Journal “Drive-In” Issue 1950</p>
  • <p>June 17, 1954</p>
  • <p>August 15, 1957</p>
  • <p>Before it was the Metro Cinema, it was the Art Cinema.</p>
  • <p>Furia at the Rialto, 1947 Italian film shown here in 1948.</p>
  • <p>Broad Street, Westerly/Pawcatuck. Very early 1900s. Note poster(s) for the Bliven Opera House.</p>
  • <p>Capture from 1930s film footage. Capitol, front right.</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture Herald, December 31, 1955</p>
  • <p>1929.10.04</p>
  • <p>My 1989 photo during the Montreal World Film Festival.</p>
  • <p>April 3, 1978</p>
  • <p>A 1940 Hungarian film specially shown here in 1955.</p>
  • <p>Looks like a 1940 Hungarian film, “Two Nights of Mary”, shown in 1955. Postcard publicity.</p>
  • <p>April 24, 1946. First Boston showings were at this theatre.</p>
  • <p>1941, entrance.</p>
  • <p>August 28, 1946.</p>
  • <p>Book on San Francisco theatres worth finding.</p>