A Gallery of Cinema Audiences

Going to the movies on postcards.

Let's go to the Cinema!

   


Film posters in Cairo, Egypt

Arriving at the Cinema


...e questo vaglia che non arriva!


- On va dans le bois ?
- Non, il fait encore trop froid, aloons plutôt au cinéma -


Hälsningsplikt [mandatory salutation]

Belgium - Charleroi: Cinema Theatre Varia

India - Kolkata / Calcutta: Metro Cinema

Italy - Roma: Metro Drive-In

USA - Los Angeles, CA: Carthay Circle Theatre

USA - Los Angeles, CA: Cinerama Dome
Red curtain at a Hollywood premiere


Alain Bertrand: Le Rex

France - Paris: Cinéma Le Balzac
Queuing at the Cinéma Le Balzac, Paris

Buying Tickets

USA - New York: Lyric Theatre, 3rd Avenue
Lyric Theatre, 3rd Avenue, New York


"Hè !! T'es pas un enfant, toi !!"
"Oh... eh... et si j'ai envie de voir
Les Maîtres du Temps moi aussi?"


"Oui, mais si je m'abonne et qu'il y a une guerre
thermonucléaire mondiale juste après,
vous rembourserez les place non-utilisées?"


"Comment ça !? Je t'invite au cinéma et tu
nepenses pa à prendre ta carte étudiant ?!"

Finding your Seat

  

Germany - Berlin: Astor Film Lounge (Film-Palast)
Film-Palast, Berlin, Germany

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Watching the Film

Stamp, Aland, 2009

Germany - Hamburg: Knopf's Lichtspielhaus
Knopf's Theater lebender Photographien, Hamburg, Germany

Germany - Berlin: Union-Theater Alexanderplatz
Union-Theater Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, 1909

Galerie Patriotique; A. Noyer, Rueil, Paris
Au Cinématographe. les vues du Front présentées
avec l'autorisation de l'Etat Major
(by José Simont)

France - Mailly-le-Camp: Foyer-Cinema
Foyer-Cinéma, Mailly-le-Camp, France

Der Detektiv-Film; B. K. W. I. (Brüder Kohn, Wien I); 126-4
Der Detektiv-Film


Tony Pfoser: Kino-Theater

   


"I'd known him anywhere----
his head's just like my husband's behind!"


Señor, aqui le traigo el programa que me pidió...
[a pun with "programa" = "programme" which
also means "love date" in Uruguayan Spanish]


Francis Miller: Drive-In Theatre ,Chicago, 1951


3-D movie viewers, 1952

Italy - Milano: Cinema Teatro Ciak
Cinema Teatro Ciak, Milano, Italy, 1990s

Germany - Essen: Lichtburg
Lichtburg, Essen, Germany, 2010s

USA - San Diego, CA: Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater, San Diego, USA

Netherlands - Rotterdam: IMAX-Theater
IMAX-Theater, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1991

France - Paris: La Géode
La Géode, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France

France - Paris: La Géode
Cinema L'Ecran, Saint-Denis, France

France - Lyon: Halle Tony Garnier
Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France

by Michael Leigh, London

France - Chasseneuil-du-Poitou / Jaunay-Martigny: Parc du Futuroscope
Cinéma 360°, Futuroscope theme park near Poitiers, France

Netherlands - Nieuwegein: Plaza Bioscoop

card from a card game 'Jeu des 7 familles'

Soo spüren war Kino noch nie, advertisement card for Cineplexx Graz, Austria

...en ze keken nog lang en gelukkig; advertisement card for Kinepolis Brugge, Belgium

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Audience, by Noseking, noseking.redbubble.com

United Kingdom - London: Gate Cinema
Gate Cinema, London

Couples in the Dark

 

 

 

Verlag Bernhard Heimann, Hamburg 3
Im Kino: Nächtliche Fühlungnahme mit dem Feinde.
"Schatz, et is duster, jetz oder nie."


(by Aurelio Bertiglia)


(by Aurelio Bertiglia)


(by Aurelio Bertiglia)


Do come to see the pictures again!

Publisher: CH, Paris; handwritten text dated 1938
- On voit pas grand chose d'ici...
- Non, mais... crois-tu que je t'ai payé l'ciné pour regarder l'écran?
(by A. G. Badert)

Használjuk ki az alkalmat! [Let's take the opportunity]
Használjuk ki az alkalmat!
[Let's take the opportunity!]

   

Leaving the Cinema

The Netherlands - Den Haag: Capitol
The Queen leaving the Capitol Cinema, Den Haag, 1936

 

Outdoor Cinema

Belgium - Antwerpen: Zomer van Antwerpen
Zomer van Antwerpen, ca. 2000

Belgium - Antwerpen: Zomer van Antwerpen
Zomer van Antwerpen, ca. 2000

Belgium - Antwerpen: Zomer van Antwerpen
Zomer van Antwerpen, ca. 2000

Switzerland - Locarno: Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2002

France - Redon: Cinema en plein air
Redon, Bretagne, 2012

Germany - Dresden: Filmnaechte am Elbufer
Filmnächte am Elbufer, Dresden, Germany, 2016

Kosovo -  Pirzren: DokuFest - Kino Lumi / Kino në Lum
Prizren DokuFest, Kosovo

Home Theatre

Lanterne Magique   Laterna Magica, Aubert, Frankreich, um 1870

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Là c'est à 'Saint-Tropez' le jour où mon gendre
a reçu la plus belle paire des gifles de sa vie...
[This is in Saint-Tropez when my son-in-law
received the greatest pair of slaps in his life...]

The Small Screen


Netherlands, 1951

     

     

Ludwig Windstosser, Werung für Energieversorgung, um 1960. Fotoarchiv Ruhr Museum, Essen; Gebr. König Postkartenverlag, Köln; Best. Nr. RME 004

Lesbia Vent Dumois: Fascists must be beaten to the end, 1973; Moskva 1977

Caricature by Claude Serre; CS12

and last, but not least, "Strike at the Television":

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