Correction on above caption: this fire was on January 15, 1947, per the Woonsocket Call and a look at what was on the marquee in this and another photo from that date.
Jean Vigo and Julien Duvivier program. Two masterpieces of French cinema actually. French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
For those familiar with Woonsocket, this long-gone theatre was located on Cumberland Street, between Clinton and Social streets, only a few yards away from St. Ann’s Church (now St. Ann Cultural Center). It was diagonally across from the present-day Walgreen’s Pharmacy. See the included map on this page.
One mile from Park Square on Louisquisset Pike is EXACTLY where the Rustic is located.
1942 ads for a Westacres Auto Theatre on Louisquisset Pike, one mile from Park Square, suggest that was an earlier name for the Rustic Drive-In.
Would like to know the titles shown so that I could research them.
The film, in French (Quebec dialect), can be seen on You Tube.
Correction on above caption: this fire was on January 15, 1947, per the Woonsocket Call and a look at what was on the marquee in this and another photo from that date.
“Il Sole Sorge Ancora,” Aldo Vergano, 1946.
“Poil de Carotte,” directed by Julien Duvivier.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
“Untel père et fils”, “Immortal France”.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
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French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
This is the 1942 French film “Macao, l'enfer du jeu,” dubbed in English, also known as “Gambling Hell” and directed by Jean Delannoy.
Jean Vigo and Julien Duvivier program. Two masterpieces of French cinema actually. French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
For those familiar with Woonsocket, this long-gone theatre was located on Cumberland Street, between Clinton and Social streets, only a few yards away from St. Ann’s Church (now St. Ann Cultural Center). It was diagonally across from the present-day Walgreen’s Pharmacy. See the included map on this page.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.