The 70mm release of “Gone With the Wind” did not play there. It played at the Four Seasons (now East Providence 10) in East Providence. I saw it there. I thought it was an abomination for the way it cropped and vandalized the original movie’s aspect ratio. “This is Cinerama” played there beginning August 9, 1961. I submitted a comment on that somewhere below. Check it out.
The St. George Theatre had the same address as the Princess Theatre, 79 Concord Street. So I assume they were the same place. I posted a photo of the Princess on a vintage postcard.
“The Lady Takes a Sailor” and “Captain China.”
My first time here was with friends on June 26, 1961 to see a double bill of “The Apartment” and Elmer Gantry.“ Pretty good program.
Home movie of the Shipyard in 1963. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5jJ3QmSKQ
I went here once in the late 1960s for “Carmen Baby.”
I went here once in the late 1960s for the movie “Carmen Baby.”
If that is Buster Keaton’s “The Cameraman,” it is certainly being projected, without respect, in an incorrect aspect ratio!
The 70mm release of “Gone With the Wind” did not play there. It played at the Four Seasons (now East Providence 10) in East Providence. I saw it there. I thought it was an abomination for the way it cropped and vandalized the original movie’s aspect ratio. “This is Cinerama” played there beginning August 9, 1961. I submitted a comment on that somewhere below. Check it out.
Chet Dowling I myself posted a photo in the photos section. It was a picture on the 1941 MGM survey of N.E. theatres. Did you see it?
I saw “Kiss Me Kate” in 3-D in Providence!
From 1994.
My photo from 1994.
That was my photo taken in 1994.
1980 re-release of “Song of the South.”
Location of the former Central Square Cinemas, not to be confused with the Central Square Theatre, either of them.
Original entrance.
This is from the 1949 re-issue of “The Wizard of Oz.”
The St. George Theatre had the same address as the Princess Theatre, 79 Concord Street. So I assume they were the same place. I posted a photo of the Princess on a vintage postcard.
A year before it would be demolished in 2008.
“General Suvorov” was released in the U.S. in September, 1941. It is available for viewing, complete, on YouTube.
From 2007.
1953 photo.
This theatre was first known as the Princess, in the 1910s. By the start of the 1920s, it was renamed the Lyric. The building is still there.
Nice movie!
1950 survey photo.
“The Last Picture Show”