Cinema Collection (page 14)

Cartoon, Rationing for the cinema? WW1
Cartoon, 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 World
Poster 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 Zootrope
A rotary zootrope : the images on the disc, seen through the slits, give the illusion of movement. Date: 1882

Third Man Music Sheet
Carol 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 1916
Taking 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 Hollywood
A 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, WW1
Cartoon, 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 Pho
MAX REINHARDT Austrian theatre, opera and film director; worked in the USA from the 1930s Date: 1873 - 1943

Filming Vesuvius 1922
Intrepid cameramen capture a sensational view of Vesuvius, standing on the very edge of the crater. Date: 1922

Reynaud Projecting Zootrope
Reynauds 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, Netherlands
Rembrandt 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, 1925
Cine-Miroir featuring the French film star Genevieve Felix in L Engrenage, 1925 Date: 1925

Abel Glance and Ivy Close discuss his film La Roue, 1924
Abel 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, USA
Programme 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, 1920
A 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 stills
A 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, USA
View of Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Date: 1940s

Night view of Empress Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Night view of the Empress Theatre and Cinema, Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1913

City Hall and Opera House, Derby, Connecticut, USA
City Hall and Sterling Opera House, Elizabeth Street, Derby, Connecticut, USA, in October 1905. Date: 1905

Wallace Beery, American film actor
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American film actor. Date: circa 1920s

Wallace Beery, American actor, with favourite plane
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American actor, with his favourite plane, a Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket. Date: circa 1935

Rex Ingram, director, producer, writer and actor
Rex Ingram (born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock, 1892-1950), Irish director, producer, writer and actor. Date: 1925

William John Locke, novelist and playwright
William 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, Japan
Minato-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

The Fine Art of Making a War-Film by Heath Robinson, WW1
Preparing the Popular Film of a Taube soaring over Rheims Cathedral. Makeshift scenery and a camera man aloft with the help of a pulley system over a bed help to recreate a scene from the First World

Cinema & Post Office, Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire
Cinema & Post Office, Fitzwilliam, Wakefield, near Kinsley, Yorkshire, England. Showing Howcroft Chemists & W Harrison Tobacconist Date: 1910s

Jack Pickford, film actor, with dogs
Jack Pickford (1896-1933), Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer, with two dogs in a studio portrait. Date: circa 1910s

Owen Nares, actor, with Yorkshire terriers
Owen Nares (1888-1943), English actor, with four Yorkshire terriers. The woman with him is possibly his sister Marie. Date: 1938

Street scene in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, possibly in the Racine district. Showing a group of boys outside a cinema where a matinee is advertised, nextdoor to the Peoples Cash Market

WW1 - St. Quentin, France under German Occupation
WW1 - Place de Hotel de Ville, St. Quentin, France under German Occupation - the theatre being used as a War Cinema ( Kriegs-Kino ). Date: 1916

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