Cinema Collection

Music cover, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Music cover, Spring, Spring, Spring! From the musical film, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel. circa 1950s

MGM LION
Recording Leo the Lions famous roar for MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) Studios

Polish poster for a film, The Warsaw Mermaid, directed by Tadeusz Makarczynski, based on a local legend. 1956

Charlie Chaplin as the little tramp
Film actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), film star and director, seen here in his little tramp costume, probably in a still from his 1925 film, The Gold Rush

Jane Russell in The French Line (1954) - an RKO Radio Picture. Directed by Howard Hughes Date: 1954

WW2 - Map of Beirut, Lebanon - with Military locations
End of WW2 - Map of Beirut, Lebanon showing Military locations important for a British serviceman stationed in the city at the end of the Second World War

The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain

1950s Cinema - Childrens Saturday Matinee. Boys and girls looking up at the screen and laughing. Two of the boys are wearing ABC badges -- the name of the cinema. Date: 1954

The Kino Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Kino Cinema in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This was the towns first cinema. Cycle racks for the use of patrons were a feature. circa 1935

Sherlock Holmes 1921
Sherlock Holmes is filmed by Stoll at Cricklewood; Baker Street is reconstructed for the purpose

Music cover, Thats Amore, words by Jack Brooks, music by Harry Warren. Showing Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Donna Reed on a golf course in the film The Caddy. 1953

Street Scene 1950S
Scene outside Gants Hill underground station near Ilford, Essex

Edna Marion and Stan Laurel in Flying Elephants
Edna Marion and Stan Laurel in a scene from Flying Elephants a two-reel silent film from 1928 directed by Frank Butler and produced by Hal Roach

London - Piccadilly Circus in the 1920s
London - Piccadilly Circus photographed in 1924

Cinema, Letchworth
Queuing to see The Golden Voyage of Sinbad at the Broadway cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England Date: circa 1969

Mutoscope at Gravesend
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free !

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Dominion Theatre and Horse Shoe Hotel
The Horse Shoe Hotel next door to the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, London

Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire Theatre
The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, now the Empire cinema, illuminated at night during a season of performances by the celebrated Russian ballet

A Night to Remember, film poster
Poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

Gaumont Projector 1903
Gaumont projector, adaptable to both still and moving pictures, Date: 1903

Sergei Eisenstein
SERGEI EISENSTEIN Russian film director, noted for Cruiser Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the terrible and several other masterpieces of early cinema

Riefenstahl / Olympics 2
OLYMPISCHESPIELE Leni Riefenstahl directs cameraman Walter Frentz during the filming of the Berlin Olympics, arguably the finest film of sport ever made

SON OF THE SHEIK
Valentinos last film, and one of his best, matches him with dancing girl Vilma Banky in George Fitzmaurices sequel to The Sheik, a classic of Hollywood exotica

Harold Lloyd in the film Safety Last 1923, famous vintage Hollywood movie image

British Actress Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (1892-1972) - British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christies character Miss Marple

Clara Bow, Paramount star in Get Your Man (1928) Date: 1928

Music cover, On the Good Ship Lollipop, Shirley Temple
Music cover, On the Good Ship Lollipop, words and music by Sidney Clare and Richard A Whiting, as sung by Shirley Temple in the film Bright Eyes. 1934

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger the horse. Date: 20th century

Leslie Howard as RJ Mitchell in The First of the Few
Leslie Howard (1893-1943) photographed on the film set for The First of the Few, in which he played the Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell. 1942

Hayley Mills in The Chalk Garden
The young British actress Hayley Mills (b.1946) during the filming of The Chalk Garden, released in 1964. Date: 1963-1964

Filming Scott of the Antarctic, with John Mills as Captain Scott RN, James Robertson Justice as Petty Officer Taff Evans, and Kenneth Moore as Lieutenant Evans

Comic Sex / Squeeze Seat
" Do you think you could squeeze me in a seat?" "... it would be better in the park after the show!"

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in Swing Time. 1936

Poster, Roberta, film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Date: 1935

SHIRLEY TEMPLE, American child star
SHIRLEY TEMPLE (1928 -2014), American child star of the 1930s, seen here giving a curtsey Date: circa 1930s

Scenes from Madame Sans-Gene (1925) starring Gloria Swanson, filmed in Paris. This lavishly produced romantic costume comedy-drama was directed by L鯮 ce Perret

Casino and Wells Beach Theatre, Wells Beach, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1940

Whitehaven fair in 1899
whitehaven fair in 1899 funfair lake district bioscope show cinematograph Date: 1899

Joseph Alfred Sparks campaigning
Joseph Alfred Sparks (19011981) - a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician

Marlene Dietrich in the German film The Blue Angel, 1930
Marlene Dietrich in the German UFA film The Blue Angel, 1930, directed by Josef Van Sternberg Date: 1930

Indonesia - Java - Bandung - City Centre Cinema. Date: circa 1950s

Trocadero super cinema, New Kent Road
The Trocadero super cinema, New Kent Road, at the Elephant and Castle, London. Date: 1947

Street with tram in Vienna, Austria
View of a street in Vienna, Austria, with a red and white tram on the right, in front of the Central Hotel. Date: 1953

Claudette Colbert, actress
Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), French-born American-based actress of screen and stage. circa 1940s

Cinema, Blackpool
Interior view of the sumptuous Picture Palace Pavilion, Blackpool, Lancashire, England - clearly designed to resemble a stage theatre and provide a sense of occasion. Date: 1938

BEAU GESTE
Robert Preston, Ray Milland, Gary Cooper and Brian Donlevy (not to mention Susan Hayward) star in Wellmans wonderful adaptation of P C Wrens tale of the Foreign Legion

Reynaud Praxinoscope
A young girl is fascinated by the illusion of movement given by Reynauds praxinoscope

B ship Potemkin Poster
Advertising poster for Sergei Eisensteins 1925 film Battleship Potemkin

Gwili Andre
Danish model and actress Gwili Andre (1907-1959), born Gurli Andresen, starring in Roar Of The Dragon at the beginning of her brief Hollywood career. Date: 1932

Buster Keaton plays golf, silent film Three Ages 1923
Buster Keaton plays golf in the silent film Three Ages 1923

Norma Shearer, Canadian actress. Date: 1934

Googie Withers in film, It Always Rains on Sunday
Googie Withers in the film, It Always Rains on Sunday. 1947

Polish poster for MGM film, Flipper
Polish poster for an MGM film, Flipper (the Polish title is: My Friend is a Dolphin), starring Chuck Connors, Kathleen Maguire and Luke Halpin, poster designed by Rapnicki. 1963

Tom Mix, American film star -- he appeared in more than 400 westerns. Date: circa 1920s

Bunny Cuddles

Cary Grant, American film star
Cary Grant, English-born American film star and stage actor. Date: circa 1940s

Residence of Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Residence of the film star Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Walturdaw Bioscope advert
Walturdaw Bioscope poster, 1908 Date: 1908

BEN-HUR (NOVARRO)
Arguably the greatest of Hollywoods silent epics, Fred Niblos 4 million dollar film stars Ramon Novarro in the title role, Francis X Bushman as Messala. Date: 1925

Edisons Vitascope
This was one of Edisons several ingenious but ultimately impracticable attempts to invent the motion picture

Filming / Riverside Studio
The technical crew and a number of on-lookers gather as Daybreak (released in 1946) is filmed at Riverside Studios, London. This scene is set in a London street

DECOUPAGES
Light, shining through cunningly torn paper, casts grotesque shapes on the wall

Projecting Praxinoscope
Reynauds praxinoscope adapted for projection onto a screen : later he would adapt it for projection in a large hall

Reynaud Praxinoscope 2
Reynauds device with central lamp, drum holding the images, and a handle for turning it, giving the illusion of movement

Ponting in Antarctic
Herbert Ponting (1871-1935) with his camera in the Antarctic : he accompanies Scotts expedition as official photographer and produces a spectacular photo record

A cinema on the Champs Elysees, Paris, France, where the film La Piste du Sud is showing. Date: 1938

Marilyn Monroe, American film star and actress. Date: 1950s

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester
Husband and wife, actors Charles Laughton (1899-1962) and Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986)

Lili Damita and Errol Flynn
Hollywood actress Lili Damita (1904-1994) had retired from film-making by the time of this photograph. Here she is with her husband Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Date: 1939

Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper and Veronica Balfe
Hollywood actors Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Gary Cooper (1901-1961) and Veronica Balfe (1913-2000). Balfe had been married to Cooper since 1933. Date: 1939

Film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s
Studio portrait of film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s

The Paramount cinema, Tottenham Court Road, London, lit up at night. Date: 1937

Poster advertising Nicholas Nickleby film, Ealing Studios, produced by Michael Balcon, directed by Cavalcanti, screenplay by John Dighton, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway

Music Cover, Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
Music cover, Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz), Judy Garland, words by E Y Harburg, music by Harold Arlen. 1939

Cinematographer adjusts his camera, September 1939
A cinematographer is shown adjusting his camera as cinemas play an increasingly important role in keeping the country informed of war news in September 1939. Date: 1939

James Cagney, American actor and dancer
James (Jimmy) Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and dancer. 20th century

June Howard-Tripp, English actress
June Howard-Tripp, sometimes referred to simply by her stage name, June, English actress. Date: 1934

Anna May Wong on the cover of the British film magazine Picturegoer. Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the most famous Chinese-American star of the golden age of cinema

ENGLAND / GRAVESEND
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free ! Date: 1906

Spa, Belgium - Le Salon de Conversation. Date: circa 1905

Harry Langdon early 1900s

Buster Keaton early 1900s

Harold LLoyd early 1900s

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