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Music cover, One Day When We Were Young, words by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Johann Strauss II, adaptation by Dimitri Tiomkin, from the film The Great Waltz, starring Luise Rainer
Julanne Johnston as Princess in The Thief of BagdadJulanne Johnston (1900-1988) as the Princess (Caliphs daughter) in the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler film, The Thief of Bagdad. 1924
New Orpheum, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South AfricaThe New Orpheum cinema and theatre, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1920
Baku - Azerbaijan - The Puppet TheatreBaku - Azerbaijan - The Baku Puppet Theatre, located on Neftchiler Avenue of Baku. Built in 1910 by Polish architect Jozef Plosko
Shirley Temple photographing her teddy bear on a postcardShirley Temple, American child actress (1928-2014), photographing her teddy bear on a postcard. Date: circa 1930s
Cartoon, Explosion on a battlefield, WW1Cartoon, Explosion on a battlefield. A French soldier guarding a trench sees a dramatic explosion on the battlefield. He hopes he will be able to get back to civilisation so that he can watch it
Cartoon, Rigadin film, WW1Cartoon, Rigadin film. Two men outside a cinema talk about the need for moral and comforting films, rather than frivolous comedies such as the one advertised
Cartoon, Filming on a battlefield, WW1Cartoon, Filming on a battlefield. German soldiers run away, thinking that the French cameraman is operating a machine gun. Date: 1917
WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - Cine ProjectionistsWW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - Cine Projectionists Date: circa 1942
Cartoon, On leave in Paris, WW1Cartoon, On leave in Paris. Two French soldiers outside a cinema are dismayed to see that all the films are about the war -- to think we came here to have fun! Date: 1917
Filming of Half a Sixpence, Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: mid-1960s
Music cover, Marilyn Monroe in NiagaraMusic cover, Italian version of a song from the 20th Century Fox film, Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters
Music cover, Esther Williams in Bathing BeautyMusic cover, Italian version of a song from the MGM film, Bathing Beauty (Bellezze Al Bagno), starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton
Outside small cinema, France Date: 1980s
Cartoon, Rationing for the cinema? WW1Cartoon, Rationing for the cinema? With so much rationing of food going on, a man wonders whether ration cards should also be issued for the cinema, as a crowd of people are turned away. Date: 1917
George Brent (1904 - 1979), Irish-born American stage, film, and television actor in American cinema
Poster hearts of WorldPoster for HEARTS OF THE WORLD, directed by D W Griffith, starring the two Gishes and including Stroheim and Coward in a World War One propaganda tear-jerker. Date: 1918
Rotary ZootropeA rotary zootrope : the images on the disc, seen through the slits, give the illusion of movement. Date: 1882
Third Man Music SheetCarol Reeds evocation of postwar Vienna, based on a Graham Greene story, makes brilliant use of the music of Anton Karas in the Harry Lime theme and Cafe Mozart Waltz. Date: 1949
Soldier filming in trench 1916Taking film in the battle fields under fire: an example of the conditions cinematograph operators had to work in during the First World War. Date: 1916
Coolidge in HollywoodA visit of a former US President to Hollywood; Calvin Coolidge on Mary Pickfords set. The famous actress is on his right. Date: 1930
Googie Withers (1917 - 2011), British actress of stage and screen
Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, WW1Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, watching a heroic war film. He turns round to the soldiers seated behind him, saying that they too have the chance to take part in such glorious scenes. 1917
Max Reinhardt / Setzer PhoMAX REINHARDT Austrian theatre, opera and film director; worked in the USA from the 1930s Date: 1873 - 1943
Filming Vesuvius 1922Intrepid cameramen capture a sensational view of Vesuvius, standing on the very edge of the crater. Date: 1922
Reynaud Projecting ZootropeReynauds Projecting Zootrope, a very sophisticated device, but also, doomed to be made obsolete by the praxinoscope and even more so by the first cinematograph projects. Date: 1890
Leicester Square, London, by night 1926. Date: 1926
Rembrandt Theatre, Amsterdam, NetherlandsRembrandt Theatre, Rembrandtplein (Rembrandt Square), Amsterdam, Netherlands, later used as a cinema. Date: circa 1908
Holloway Empire Theatre, London - demolished in 1953. Date: circa 1908
Cine-Miroir featuring Genevieve Felix in L Engrenage, 1925Cine-Miroir featuring the French film star Genevieve Felix in L Engrenage, 1925 Date: 1925
Abel Glance and Ivy Close discuss his film La Roue, 1924Abel Glance and British film star Ivy Close discussing the scenario of his film La Roue, 1924 Date: 1924
A scene from the film Ces Nouveaux Messieurs, 1928, directed by Jacques Feyder Date: 1928
The French film actress Lily Damita, 1928, later to work in Hollywood and marry Errol Flynn Date: 1928
Programme cover, Rialto Theatre, New York, USAProgramme cover for the Rialto Theatre, Broadway at 42nd Street, New York, USA, Director Hugo Riesenfeld, February 1922. The programme included the overture to Verdis Sicilian Vespers
Cover for Paris Plaisirs number 5, October 1922, featuring Paulette Berger a new star of the French cinema Date: 1922
Filming a British silent, 1920A film cameraman films two actresses for a British Silent Film, 1920 Date: 1920
A scene from Eileen of the Trees (1929) or Glorious Youth with Anny Ondra and Randle Ayrton, directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1929
A Scene from Confetti (1927) directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1928
Zeebrugge film stillsA page from The Illustrated London News, 18 October 1924, with twelve stills from a newly released film reconstruction of the raid on Zeebrugge by the Royal Navy on 23 April 1918
Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USAView of Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Date: 1940s
Night view of Empress Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska, USANight view of the Empress Theatre and Cinema, Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1913
City Hall and Opera House, Derby, Connecticut, USACity Hall and Sterling Opera House, Elizabeth Street, Derby, Connecticut, USA, in October 1905. Date: 1905
Wallace Beery, American film actorWallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American film actor. Date: circa 1920s
Wallace Beery, American actor, with favourite planeWallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American actor, with his favourite plane, a Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket. Date: circa 1935
Rex Ingram, director, producer, writer and actorRex Ingram (born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock, 1892-1950), Irish director, producer, writer and actor. Date: 1925
William John Locke, novelist and playwrightWilliam John Locke (1863-1930), novelist and playwright. His stories include Ladies in Lavender and Stella Maris, both of which have been filmed. Date: 1925
Street scene with cinema in Kobe, JapanMinato-Gawa (Theatre Street) with the Kwansai-Ichi Asahikwan Cinema in Kobe, Japan. Posters outside the cinema depict Eileen Sedgwick in The Diamond Queen (1921). Date: circa 1921
Two film stars in Paris Plaisirs magazine: Madge Bellamy (Fox Film) and Agnes Petersen, as seen in the film Scheherazade (Alliance Cinematographique Europeene). Date: circa 1928