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Vintage Cinema Premieres

Historic black and white photos of movie premieres and audiences, showcasing the glamour and excitement of film events from the mid-20th century.

Young Boy Outside, Motion Picture Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, May 1910

Moviegoers line up for a show at the Warner Theater on Lawrence Street, off Essex, one of many theaters in Lawrence during the 1940s , Theaters, Queues. Franklin Associates

Folies Bergere, Paris, France, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Café cabaret "De Doofpot" on Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam. March 23, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

JOSEPH COTTEN, ORSON WELLES and EVERETT SLOANE in CITIZEN KANE (1941), directed by ORSON WELLES.

Madrid, August 1972. Queues in front of a cinema showing the "refigerado" advertisement. "El Zorro de Monterrey" is on the billboard and is a continuous session, starting at 5 in the afternoon. For the following Monday, "Z-27, Operation Rembrandt" and "The Marx Brothers in the West" were announced.

LUMIÈRE! (2016), directed by THIERRY FREMAUX.

Anefo photo collection. Series. Film advertising campaign "Funny Girl". Cinema du Midi lit, exterior. March 3, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

TEATRO DE LA COMEDIA FACHADA DE NOCHE CON OBRA DE GALA - FOTO AÑOS 80 - FOTO AÑOS 80. Author: AGUSTIN ORTIZ VILLAJOS (1827-1902). Location: TEATRO DE LA COMEDIA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Premiere of The Jazz Singer. The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the 'talkies' and the decline of the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. The film is based on The Day of Atonement, a play by Samson Raphaelson.

11/22/1978. Pathe Cinema.

Anefo photo collection. Series. Film advertising campaign "Funny Girl". Cinema du Midi lit. March 3, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Exterior City Theater at the Kleine Gartmanplantsoen in Amsterdam. Advertising board Film - in vain. December 26, 1948. Amsterdam

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film and the first motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson

HAROLD LLOYD in SAFETY LAST (1923), directed by FRED NEWMEYER.

Anefo photo collection. Assignments Columbia Pictures, arrival in the lobby of the city theater. February 24, 1959

09/01/1915. Premiere in News. A scene from the play "Los Matarifes", lyrics by Fernández de la Puente and music by Señores Vela and Bru, premiered in said theater.

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

Paris, France posters of theaters , (French - Paris , France Affiches des Théâtres). Poster, entertainment in wartime, theater, Registration , information, entertainment, art, France, Paris, posters of theaters

The curtain is up! by Willard Van Ornum, 1890-1927 Published 1914. Illustration shows a busy street scene in a city with numerous electric signs advertising cafes, theaters, restaurants, and cigarettes;also shows pedestrians on the sidewalks and automobiles on the street.

Nightclub Cameo, South Beach, Miami, Florida, USA

03/18/1918. The Fallas of San José, in Valencia. fourth prize, "Great Spanish circus".

A group of men and boys looking at the billboard of an equestrian circus.

Concert of the ant (Old Turkish Ball.) / Bd Barb�s 6. The Ant, Old Turkish Ball, 6 Barbated Boulevard, 18th Arrondissement, Paris Four concert, Old Turkish ball, 6 Boulevard Barb�s. Paris (18th arrest), 1870-1901. Draw on albuminum paper. Photograph of Albert Brichaut.

Anefo photo collection. Cinema Rex Theater in Amsterdam. Advertising for the film "No one will know" "released by current films. December 16, 1949. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Concertgebouw orchestra for television camera. September 13, 1952

High angle view of a group of people at a casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

11/26/1922. Madrid - at the Infanta Isabel theater a Scene, in two Acts, from the play by Martinez Kleiser and Rodriguez de Celis, "the Virtuoso prince".

Anefo photo collection. Series. Advertising campaign film "Funny Girl" (in Cinema du Midi in Amsterdam). Advertising boards in cinema. 28 February 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam; Sex theater, Oz Achterburgwal. January 19, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

RAPHAEL. RAFAEL MARTOS SANCHEZ. CANTANTE ESPAÑOL.LINARES 1943 -. PRESENTACION ESPECTACULO "RAPHAEL : 14 AÑOS DE CANCIONES". 1974.

Anefo photo collection. Party lighting on Leidseplein in Amsterdam. Party lighting, night images. November 16, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Party lighting in Brussels. The coming marriage of King Baudouin, lighting in the Nieuwstraat. December 2, 1960. Brussels

12/31/1949. The Moulin Rouge in Paris Photo. T. Carestrero.

People walking in front of a movie theater

Madrid, 7/1/1970. The Slavic theater.

FRED MACMURRAY and CLAIRE TREVOR in BORDELINE (1950), directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER.

Entrance of a cinema presenting the movie poster: "Promise to the unknown" of André Berthomieu released in 1942. Entrance of a cinema presenting the movie poster: "Promise to the unknown" André Berthomieu, released in 1942. Anonymous photography. Gélatino Bromide Draw, 1942.

BEN-HUR (1959), directed by WILLIAM WYLER.

CINEMA PARADISO (1988) -Original title: NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO-, directed by GIUSEPPE TORNATORE.

AGENT 38-24-36 (1964) -Original title: UNE RAVISSANTE IDIOTE-, directed by EDOUARD MOLINARO.

THE CARPETBAGGERS (1964), directed by EDWARD DMYTRYK.

Anefo photo collection. Mayor Samkalden fascinates party lighting downtown a leather doll on the Leiden square. November 16, 1967

GDR, Berlin, 17.03.1990, Filmtheater (cinema) Union in Friedrichshagen

Anefo photo collection. Commonder Volkskrant, Strip shop Lambiek. September 28, 1973

Anefo photo collection. Café cabaret "De Doofpot" on Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam. Program Max Tailleur. March 23, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Ice for the show, in the RAI the ice rink is prepared the ice machine to work. September 23, 1964

Next morning Little Runabout's engine is wheezy and breaks down. Bimbo is very annoyed, junks his car and buys a flash new one. December 15, 1954.

Minstrel poster in Alabama town. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Silas Green from New Orleans (active 1900s-1950s)

Anefo photo collection. Command columbia film; Advertising board N. A. Voorburgwal. September 25, 1970

Announcements of plays at the Elizabethan Theatre appear where there were once advertisements of vaudeville shows or melodramas. September 12, 1955.

Drive in movie

Sutton Theater showcasing "Portrait of a Woman"

CITIZEN KANE (1941), directed by ORSON WELLES.

Anefo photo collection. Command columbia film; Advertising board Cromwell Weteringschans. September 25, 1970

Playing Tango, Las Vegas, Nevada , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Drive-In Theater. ca. 1946, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 'MOVIES UNDER THE STARS' DRIVE-IN THEATRE-PHOENIX, ARIZONA. DRIVE-IN THEATRE 'World's Finest Cinema Auto Amphitheatre, OPEN THE YEAR 'ROUND, 'MOVIES UNDER THE STARS' PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

Casino: Broadway and 39th Street, Theater - New York

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