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This was the first Italian neo-realist film I saw, when I was taken to it around age 8. It can be seen, unsubtitled, on YouTube as “Il sole sorge ancora.”
This jolly musical,“Keto and Kote”, can be seen complete on YouTube, in Georgian with NO subtitles. It was made in 1948.
From 1936.
Looks like 1949. “Battleground” on the marquee.
This is currently an unfindable film from that era, possibly lost.
I went out of my way to see this at a cinema on the outskirts of Rome in 1969, under the original title “Banditi a Milano.”
Advice during the pandemic!
Poster from 1942.
The Boston Globe reports that this theatre is up for sale. (July 2023).
Dreadful disaster!
Films on the marquee: ROAD SHOW and HER FIRST ROMANCE.
1912 to 1947 was the period of Italian colonization of Libya. This photo seems to be from the 1910s.
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November 6, 1985.
IMDb says the film “Gyimesi vadvirág” with that cast was made in 1939. So this photo must be later.
This film can be seen, complete, on YouTube.
A Nazi-propaganda film.
The year is 1940.
Year, 1940.
The cinema, only a few steps from the old Metropolitan Opera, would have often attracted the same audience.
This was the first Italian neo-realist film I saw, when I was taken to it around age 8. It can be seen, unsubtitled, on YouTube as “Il sole sorge ancora.”
“Sicko” opened in 2007.
“Lebbra bianca” = leprosy.
This Italian film was also titled “Porto.”
“First anniversary program.”
The closing of Dan Talbot’s theatre was a terrible blow to quality film exhibition in Manhattan.