Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>February 27, 1959</p>
  • <p>Times Square, 1940. Lou Stoumen via Swann Galleries.</p>
  • <p>December 6, 1939. “Port of Shadows”.</p>
  • <p>Historical marker photo credit kenneithperrin on Instagram.</p> <p>https://www.instagram.com/kenneithperrin/</p>
  • <p>Vitascope Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1897 - Motion Picture World for July 1916 - illustrated an interview with William T Rock, who was for years the President of the Vitagraph Picture Company of America and who tells the story of how he started out in the Vitascope Hall.</p>
  • <p>March 22, 1961. The last film of the Apu Trilogy. The first film of the trilogy, “Pather Panchali” had played at the Avon in February 1959. The second film, “Aparajito” never played commercially in Providence but was shown a couple of years later at Brown University’s Faunce House Theatre in 35mm as part of the whole trilogy.</p>
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  • <p>1941 photo courtesy John F Crowley.</p>
  • <p>Emery (Carlton) and other theatres in Providence, March 13, 1927.</p>
  • <p>College-bound Brattle neophytes circa 2003 for “Singin' in the Rain” in 35mm Technicolor.</p>
  • <p>The Jewish film was scheduled to be shown at the Met on October 2, 1938 in the aftermath of the brutal hurricane which hit the state at this time. Don’t believe it actually played.</p>
  • <p>1977</p>
  • <p>This 1930 French-German collaboration was one of the first, if not the very first, French-talking films. It was shown here at the Laurier in July 1933 in the French version.</p>
  • <p>In the 1930s.</p>
  • <p>In 1941. The 1939 French film by Robert Siodmak “Pièges”, retitled “Personal Column”, with Maurice Chevalier.</p>
  • <p>April 25, 1948</p>