Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>A 1912 Italian silent, playing here in 1913. It starred Maria Jacobini and was directed by Girolamo Lo Savio. Then called the Victoria Theatre.</p>
  • <p>Here’s another peek at what’s possible for Downtown Attleboro: a rendering of the view from the Balcony overlooking the renovated Union Theatre. From “The Union Theatre Revival”, Facebook, 8-14-24. This is a rendering, not a photo of an actual completed restoration.</p>
  • <p>Shown at the Cable Car on February 7, 1988 in 35mm. X-Rated film by Marco Bellocchio, an Italian Film Society of RI program.</p>
  • <p>“The Village Blacksmith” by John Ford, 1922, played here in March 1923. It is now a lost film except for a fragment which survives and can be seen on YouTube. It’s the very exciting finale.</p>
  • <p>August 18, 1939. First Providence showing.</p>
  • <p>September 20, 1905 ad for “Wizard of Oz” onstage. View of actual stage.</p>
  • <p>“The Best of Youth” (La meglio gioventu') was a six-hour epic family drama shown in two parts that played here in 2006.</p>
  • <p>March 5, 1982</p>
  • <p>November 22, 1985.</p>
  • <p>February 8, 1977</p>
  • <p>Shown as operating in 1981</p>
  • <p>Infantry Hall tower, left, Columbia Showboat Theatre, center rear. 1897, Providence Harbor.</p>
  • <p>In 1919.</p>
  • <p>On May 23, 2013 I attended the last 35mm film shown here, appropriately “The Last Picture Show”. It was a good print, decently projected. After this, the 35mm projector and platters would be removed and DCP digital projection installed, but the cinema would last only about five more years, until 2018.</p>
  • <p>As Andersen’s Theatre, showing 1929 film “Happy Days”.</p>
  • <p>1953</p>
  • <p>June 4, 1966. Before the venue would be re-named Cinema Italia or Italy Cinema.</p>
  • <p>March 6, 1968. First movie shown in newly-added Cinema III.</p>
  • <p>March 31, 1989. The 1942 2-part Italian film “Noi vivi/Addio, Kira” re-issued in 1988 as a single and heavily modified movie by the Ayn Rand estate which acquired the rights. A stunning anti-totalitarian drama with great performances. Directed by Goffredo Alessandrini.</p>
  • <p>Some Worcester theatres in 1959.</p>
  • <p>October 28, 1917</p>
  • <p>Looking Back 100 Years (October 21st, 1924)</p>
  • <p>April 29, 1928. Film “Shepherd of the Hills” was released on January 1st of that year.</p>
  • <p>This 1988 Greek film played here at the Cable Car Cinema the last week of January 1992.</p>
  • <p>May 23, 1920</p>
  • <p>This run was a move-over from the Avon Cinema where it had played as a reserved-seat, advanced admission price presentation.</p>
  • <p>Febuary 10, 1924</p>
  • <p>The source of many of the ethnic Italian-language films shown here when it was the Cinema Giglio was the importer-distributor Casolaro-Giglio, on Lafayette Street.</p>