Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>The Russian film, “The Girl from Leningrad” draws crowds at the Stanley Theatre in New York circa 1942</p>
  • <p>Tax photo circa 1940.</p>
  • <p>January 26, 1945. Review of a Soviet film about German war crimes in Ukraine. Boston Globe.</p>
  • <p>September 24, 1970. Filmed in Italy, Russia, and Ukraine.</p>
  • <p>1947 photo courtesy of Jim Robb.</p>
  • <p>1947 photo courtesy of Jim Robb.</p>
  • <p>Esplanade Picture Gardens - The Esplanade and William Street, Perth - Another view.</p> <p>Contributed by Greg Lynch - <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"nrgh@%rnhg_%@nrgh_%__n@gr__h___%@__g@n{,h+rg\\u0000FfdhFrruikjpluw1"+ "@q{u;V4..>,5?@+fl36f,i+>D0glFwdhfrhurk@1~g.nlfk,j.h>1wgqnolh3rl?u>i@*+@r>>"+ "__*{_______%____/D__5As(igjBuum4ht7vgouFyrktooDtbsbjk(z(zC(rsoi&jbuum4ht7v"+ "gouFyrktoo@tzsojsubrlgx(_&CBk.nzgx(4ktos}izjk__{u_______%____hr____@g____n"+ ">_%rnhgn@gr1hsvlo+w**1,huhyvu+h1,rmql*+__*,_%>{@**>iru+l@3>l?+nrgh1ohqjwk0"+ "4,>l.@5,~{.@nrgh1fkduDw+l.4,.nrgh1fkduDw+l,\\u0000nrgh@{.+l?nrgh1ohqjwkBnr"+ "gh1fkduDw+nrgh1ohqjwk04,=**,>>_%@{**i>url+3@l>+?rnhgo1qhwj0k,4l>@.,5{~@.rn"+ "hgf1dkDu+w.l,4n.gr1hkfudwDl+\\u0000,rnhg{@+.?lrnhgo1qhwjBkrnhgf1dkDu+wrnhg"+ "o1qhwj0k,4*=,*>%>{@**>iru+l@3>l?+nrgh1ohqjwk04,>l.@5,~{.@nrgh1fkduDw+l.4,."+ "nrgh1fkduDw+l,\\u0000nrgh@{.+l?nrgh1ohqjwkBnrgh1fkduDw+nrgh1ohqjwk04,=**,>"+ "\";x='';for(i=0;i<kode.length;i++){c=kode.charCodeAt(i)-3;if(c<0)c+=128;x+"+ "=String.fromCharCode(c)}kode=x" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* ]]> */ </script></p>
  • <p>The Little Theatre launched on October 8, 1928 with Fritz Lang’s UFA film, “Siegfried” supported but the one reel UFA film, “Killing the Killer.”</p>
  • <p>May Day demonstration and counter-protest in 1951 near Elgin Theatre showing a Loretta Young movie. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 2, 1951. Full article on page 9.</p>
  • <p>February 22, 1931.</p>
  • <p>Re-opened on March 3, 2022 as Apple Cinemas.</p>
  • <p>Sourced from an article in the Sheffield Telegraph (24th August 2017). Courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association Archive.</p>
  • <p>Eisenberg and Feer, the Boston architects design the interior of the Egyptian to reflect the Great Temple of Karnak at Thebes on the Upper Nile River.</p>
  • <p>Looking down Halliwell Lane towards Cheethamhill Road 1930</p>
  • <p>January 30, 1998 in the Chicago Tribune. Scene from the Odessa Steps sequence in the 1925 Russian film by Eisenstein. Set in 1905, it tells of the revolt of the crew of the battleship Potemkin of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea fleet against the officers of the ship, and the people of Odessa in Ukraine supporting the sailors against the murderous Tsarist militia.</p>
  • <p>March 27, 2010</p>
  • <p>In 1964.</p>
  • <p>October 9, 2015. LA Times. The documentary film “Winter on Fire” about the 2013-2014 popular uprising in Kyiv in Ukraine played here briefly and was widely seen on Netflix.</p>
  • <p>The 1938 Ukrainian-language film played here in 1940.</p>
  • <p>The term “opera house” in the United States was used rather loosely as opera houses had live and filmed entertainment that ran the gamut from Shakespeare plays to circus acts. But the Verdi Hall in Philadelphia’s Little Italy pictured here was dedicated to Italian-language opera for its formative years of 1905 to World War I before moving to movies. Ambitious in pre-Metropolitan Opera House Philly.</p>
  • <p>Vintage photo of the Kinopanorama in Kyiv, Ukraine.</p>
  • <p>February 1939 ad in a Ukrainian American newspaper. It publicizes the movie “Cossacks in Exile” at the Belmont. The movie was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and was based on a well-loved Ukrainian folk opera.</p>
  • <p>Vintage exterior.</p>