Paramount Theatre
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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The date 2/2/51
Ike,Ella,Dean and Jerry
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That’s a gteat shot. i would not have wanted to be on the crew changing that wonderful marquee in that weather.
What a work of art those marquees were in those days, all the lettering perfectly centered and spaced.
“The Carpetbaggers” was the final regular screen attraction and closed after a 5 week run on Tuesday, August 4, 1964.
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Hard Rock is putting the finishing touches on a new screen systems and LED lighting for the marquee. The LED’s are much brighter than the former lighting source they had when the marquee returned with the WWF store.
Sailors throw tomatoes at the Paramount in October 1944. From the NY Daily News.
http://tinyurl.com/ltwqty
I was addressing the use of copyrighted photographs and will not enter into a discussion of the legality of ads. Many authors must pay a royalty fee to use photographs in their publications. Posting photographs obtained without express permission is illegal. You are distributing photographs that do not belong to you and which you have no express permission to do so. Once a photograph is posted on a blog, thousands of people can copy and continue to distribute said photograph. The value of each photograph may decrease due to this illegal copying. I believe that the webmaster should prohibit the use of any illegally obtained material on this blog.
George
As a personal subscriber to Proquest, I can assure you that you are wrong. My contract specifies ALL images are for personal use only and cannot be published in any way, including electronic.
The original ad mats are part of the copyright of the films themselves and are usually owned by studios, not newspapers. Ad agencies can be sued for even altering them these days.
All reproduced movie ad art work technically requires permission even if studios rarely bother unless another studio is stealing their campaign.
I agree that ken mc should have, at least, given that book some credit as it may help sales. But you already took care of that.
Waaren, since the ads you post often have the Proquest “reproduction prohibited” tag still on them, isn’t this comment a bit hypocritical?
Indeed I must whole heartily agree. The level of piracy that this individual exhibits is appalling. The excellent reputation of this blog is being diminished by these ill gotten photographs. It is time for the webmaster to put an end to this ludicrous practice.
George
Here is another interior photo from the same era:
http://tinyurl.com/pnx84k
Here is an interior photo, circa 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/q4eotf
A 12/23/54 NY Daily News ad for “the greatest Christmas attraction of all time”. Er, I don’t think so … even Paul Newman would take issue with that statement:
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While it’s a shame the Paramount is lost, at least they brought back the exterior, and a recreation of the marquee.
It doesn’t get much cooler than this:
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P.S. Spend some time on this web site. It quickly becomes addictive!
Renewing link.
Well, my father was a smoker so that explains why we took the high road.
correction— I should have specified: “smoking was permitted in NYC theater balconies.” Balconies only. I came finally to climb to them as a teenager accompanied by friends, each with breast-pockets bulging with packs of Phillip Morris (my poison of choice) et al.
rvb—
For my similar experience in the Paramount’s lofty balcony, scroll above to 3 March 2005. I don’t know why my mom climbed to the balcony that day. We never did at other theaters, except when accompanied by a smoker (her younger sister was one). IN those days, smoking was permitted in NYC theaters. It’s a wonder the projection beam was able to travel to the screen through all the celestial haze of Phillip Morris et al.
I. was only in the Paramount once with my parents as a child. At that time there was a movie and a stage show. On stage was Gene Krupa.
We climbed, and climbed up to our seats at the rear of the balconcy only to leave shortly thereafter when my mother had to leave because of the height factor which sometimes bothered her (Jones Beach Marine theatre and the Montauk Point lighthouse were the other times that I remember.)
Bob, I loved that clip as well. If only to once again see and hear that wonderful Eyes and Ears Paramount News opening and closing :)
Paramount newsreel covered this event. Check out the clip starting at 1:57 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEtIllFGQ4
Alan Ladd on screen and Miss Peggy Lee on stage
To Warren Harris: How do you retrieve back (very Back!) copies of Variety?
Anthony Biancoviso
I heard that Jerry Lewis was thinking about running in 2012. No announcement yet, though.
Look at the women and girls in the Snow White photo.
They are all in dresses and skirts. I don’t see one in slacks.
And it looks like a matinee.