Cinema Collection (page 20)

Britannia Music Hall
Famous music hall in Hoxton, London. Opened in 1858, built on the site of the Britannia Saloon, opened 1841. Converted to a cinema in 1923 and destroyed by bombing in 1940

Queueing for Cinema 40S
A working-class crowd line up to see Gilda, a racy thriller starring Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth

FILMING KING KONG 1
The filming of KING KONG - special effects are required to assimilate the monster to his surroundings. 1 of 2

Poster : Le Chasseur
Poster for LE CHASSEUR DE CHEZ MAXIMs evidently a social comedy about le high- life de Paris

DIORAMA
At its simplest, the diorama consists of one or more pictures wound on a spool which is turned to give the spectators the illusion of passing through a landscape

Multiple Light Source
The Dancing Devil illusion is created by using multiple lights to project the image onto a screen, where spectators see it replicated

Optical Illusion / Ghost
An optical illusion on stage give the effect of a ghost on stage during a play

Projecting Praxinoscope2
Reynauds praxinoscope or Theatre Optique gives the illusion of movement by a rapid succession of images : the audience are seated on the other side of the screen

Colour Films in 1911
The Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, London, offers its patrons a chance to see the Worlds Events in their natural colours !

Kidak home Movie Camera
The Cine-Kodak model K - takes black-and-white, Kodacolor and Telephoto movies ! weighs only 3 lbs 11 1/2 ounces !

Kodak Advert 1929 (Punch
You can make your own movies in FULL COLOUR - with a Cine- Kodak

Film at 1900 Exposition
The Gaumont-Demery exhibit impresses visitors to the 1900 Paris Exposition

Romanian Peasants Panic
Panic breaks out when a mobile cinema gives peasants of Bessarabia, Romania, their first glimpse of the wonders of cinematography !

As the Picture Ends
Just as the moving picture ends

GIMME A NICKEL
gimme a Nickel for the Movies !

Filming an Adult Movie
Filming a dance sequence in a film for grown-ups

Russia-Japan War Filmed
French cameramen cover the Russia-Japan War - the first film record of a major war

Newsreel in Balkans
Newsreel cameramen covering the Balkan Wars find themselves in the line of fire of the warring forces

Portable Microphone
Film-making with a portable microphone, in the early days of sound cinema : a scene during the making of Schloss Hubertus in Germany

Filming 1936 Olympics
OLYMPISCHE SPIELE 1936 Leni Riefenstahl and one of her team, recording the Games

Pathescope Catalogue
Pathescope - the ideal home cinema

Television Cinema
TELEVISION CINEMA

Lumiere Cinematography
People are amused by what they see on the screen

Talking Movie Equipment
English Professor Low, demonstrating his Audiometer, which synchronises moving film with sound, an ingenious invention during early Talkies years

MAKING A TALKIE
A film crew making a Talkie of the gulls in Hyde Park, central London

Girls at the Cinema
A group of extremely well turned-out young ladies, all of them with trendy Marcel Wave hair-dos, wearing headphones to watch a film at the cinema

Cecil B. De Mille
CECIL B. DE MILLE American film director - working on The Sign Of The Cross, 1932

Phanakistoscope
Plateaus Phenakistoscope - a variant of the zootrope, in which the images, seen through slits, seem to move when the disc is rotated

Cinema abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth enters Lincolns box

Futuristic cine-phono-telegraph
A futuristic cine-phono-telegraph, which allows people to speak over the telephone and see each other on a screen at the same time

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