Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>January 28, 1917. Ad in “L'Italia della domenica.” Films of war on the Italian front.</p>
  • <p>Source: Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center</p>
  • <p>Photographer: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) Date 1940 - 1950 Data Source: Archives Center - National Museum of American History</p>
  • <p>September 23, 1962 photo in the Washington Star. I’m guessing this was the Follies Theatre around 1962.</p>
  • <p>September 5, 1952</p>
  • <p>September 25, 1962</p>
  • <p>Side 2 of a leaflet for a 1951 attraction. Courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association Archive.</p>
  • <p>February 14th, 1950 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>January 15, 1953</p>
  • <p>May 16, 1941</p>
  • <p>December 13, 1953. Rossellini’s “Woman” (“Desiderio”) plus Gassman in “Shamed” (“Preludio d'amore”.) An Italian double bill that circulated widely, if slowly, during the 1950s and early 1960s.</p>
  • <p>February 1, 1948</p>
  • <p>From a 1919 glass slide.</p>
  • <p>January 22, 1956. I never before found any theatre in America that showed this now-widely-admired, even visionary, Rossellini film as a single feature when it first came out here, including New York. At the time it was considered a “film maudit” and consigned to the dust-bin of obscure double features and late-night television. Here it is in Tallahassee, Florida. Original title: “Viaggio in Italia/Voyage to Italy.”</p>
  • <p>The Strand Theatre in 1941.</p>
  • <p>The booth of the Lowe’s Capitol. Photo was taken by the late Fred Kelley and was hanging in the booth of the old KB Baronet when I worked there in the early 1970s.</p>
  • <p>December 1, 1928. Come-on by Barbara Kent.</p>
  • <p>January 5, 1949.</p>
  • <p>Psychedelic art is just part of the Janus Theatres experience in Washington, D.C.</p>
  • <p>1929 photo, intersection of Hartford Avenue and Plainfield Street in the Olneyville section of Providence.</p>
  • <p>Photographed in 1928 screening Robert Ellis in “Marry the Girl” (silent).</p>
  • <p>Standing on the stage looking to the rear of the auditorium. Notice the glassed-in cry room and smoking room in the balcony.</p>
  • <p>View of the stage from the main floor.</p>
  • <p>August 6, 1950</p>
  • <p>January 9, 1946. Russian film “Once There Was a Girl,” set during the German siege of Leningrad.</p>
  • <p>March 19, 1957</p>