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Historic Nightlife in Urban Settings

Black-and-white visuals of 1940s to 1960s nightlife, capturing iconic locations and moments in bustling urban settings with a nostalgic vibe.

US - 1961 - in this neo-noir film, an assassin follows his target, a mob boss, as he makes his rounds through Harlem.
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amusement alley
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Movie theater. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Ballon with advertising for 'Thee E. Brandsma', in the background a cord dancer above a fairground, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support pleasure fair and circus. advertising. balloon (aviation). equilibrist
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TWELVE MONKEYS (1995), directed by TERRY GILLIAM.
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Uptown Theatre marquee reads, 'No More Children. Dr. Lee Krauss and Daughter Elain Explains Birth Control.' By the early 1920s, legal resistance to birth control eased, allowing for Dr. Lee Krauss's morality flaunting theater marquee. (BSLOC_2015_16_208)
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Duke Ellington and Band Members playing Baseball in front of their Segregated Motel while touring, Florida, USA, Charlotte Brooks, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, 1955
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GENE KELLY in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952), directed by GENE KELLY and STANLEY DONEN.
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Street scene showing movie theater, probably in the vicinity of Lancaster, Ohio. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Street scene showing movie theater, probably in the vicinity of Lancaster, Ohio. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Scene from the film King Kong by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, Anonymous
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Street scene showing movie theater, probably in the vicinity of Lancaster, Ohio. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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PICADILLY CIRCUS - ANUNCIOS FLUORESCENTES. Location: EXTERIOR. LONDON. ENGLAND.
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INSIDE DEEP THROAT (2005), directed by FENTON BAILEY and RANDY BARBATO.
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