Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>Forum’s booth shown in trade ad (May, 1929)</p>
  • <p>The Strand marquee can be seen in the rear. The Opera House marquee, front right, lists the 1937 film “Life Begins in College.”</p>
  • <p>The Opera House is showing the 1937 film “Life Begins in College.” The Strand marquee can also be seen.</p>
  • <p>Criterion Theatre NE corner of Broadway and W. 44th Street, New York, NY</p>
            
              <h1>Front of house streetscape for a 3D presentation.</h1>
            
              <p>Second Chance (Extract from the promo book) the 1953 Rudolph Mate 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) crime film noir (“First time! Big Stars in 3-D!”; “So real… You feel you’re dangling with Mitchum 2000 feet over empty space!”; “3-Dimension so real…you feel You can Touch the Big Stars”.</p>
            
              <p>“Sky-High Excitement atop a South American mountain peak!”; “3-D so real…it puts you so close to the lovers you feel everything they feel!”; “Screenplay by Oscar Millard & Sydney Boehm”; produced by Howard Hughes) starring Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance, Roy Roberts, Dan Seymour, and Fortunio Bonanova.</p>
            
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  • <p>2009 re-issue poster on display in front of theatre.</p>
  • <p>A photo I took outside Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in Aril 1993. On screens there at the time: “The Story of Qui Ju”, “The Crying Game”, “Il Ladro Di Bambini”, “Olivier, Olivier”, “Indochine”, and “Leolo”.</p>
  • <p>April 15, 1983  Steven Spielberg’s first feature length feature made for TV and aired November 13, 1971. It was presented as part of the “ABC Movie Of The Week” series (1969-1975).</p>
  • <p>Side of the theatre on Via Mecenate. Entrance to the smaller theatre called Brancaccino.</p>
  • <p>Capture from vintage footage, 1944-46. Patrons in line.</p>
  • <p>The Teatro Brancaccio as the Teatro Morgana in 1928.</p>
  • <p>The Brancaccio in the immediate postwar period. Capture from vintage film footage on YouTube, colorized.</p>
  • <p>The Iowa Theatre in April 1931</p>
  • <p>Source: The Exhibitor, March 16, 1949</p>
  • <p>April 2, 1959</p>
  • <p>January 26, 1952. “Angelo” was called Il Mulatto in Italy and was a very sensitive and beautiful movie.</p>
  • <p>In 1941, from historic film footage.</p>
  • <p>Film theatre in 1939 from historic film footage. Movie: The Mysterious Miss X.</p>
  • <p>Martin Luther King film. March 25, 1970 story.</p>
  • <p>June 25, 1955. Reopening after fire.</p>
  • <p>1959</p>
  • <p>October 22, 1949</p>
  • <p>February 8, 1951 article. Film “Bitter Rice” halted by police.</p>
  • <p>Early 1941 showing of the Hitler documentary “World In Flames”.</p>
  • <p>Capri Theatrette 721 Hay Street, Perth, WA</p>
            
              <h1>John Kent writes - Who remembers going to the Mayfair Theatrette in Hay Street. It opened in 1947, and closed in 1968, when it then became the Capri Cinema, and latterly JB Hi-Fi. Yes, that’s me with Tom & Jerry at the Mayfair in the mid 1950’s.</h1>
            
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  • <p>In 1965 a double bill of an Italian and a French film. The Columbus was then a good art house, before it went “adult.”</p>