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Good morning campers and welcome to a new collection for the photostream! Today we have an image from the Michael S. Walker Collection showing one of my favourite theatres in Dublin, the Capitol Cinema and Theatre. Let us see what you can make of this one...And our contributors "made quite a lot of it" :) Apart from the extra info on the La Scala (later Capitol) Cinema itself ( Capitol_Theatre,_Dublin ) , the dating of the 'Flight of the Doves' film ( Flight_of_the_Doves ) helped us pinpoint this (previously undated) image, to c.1971. Given its near ubiquity on Irish TV in the 70s and 80s, many of us may have watched the Flight of the Doves on a smaller screen. But several of our contributors caught other shows on the Capitol's big screen - while taking in the interior decoration (including perhaps the the Clarke studio stained glass ( http://www.dia.ie/works/view/37944 ) and woodwork from the Britannic ( http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Dublin/CapitolTheatreDublin.htm ) ). This made us wonder what became of its architectural salvage, when the cinema was demolished in 1972. (Indeed, salvaged works by the Clarke family have turned up in stranger places ( https://comeheretome.com/2016/10/03/out-of-a-skip-came-a-harry-clarke/ ) ). In any event, while I may be stretching, it seems plausible that Walker knew this building's days were numbered - and captured it shortly before it was lost to the Dublin streetscape.......Photographer: Michael S. Walker..Collection: Michael S. Walker ( http://http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000314227 ) ..Date: Likely c.1971 (film signage). Certainly before 1972 (demolition)..NLI Ref.: NPA WALK7 ( vtls000268504 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )
By 1908 there were 10,000 permanent movie theaters in the U.S. alone. For the first thirty years, movies were silent, accompanied by live musicians, sound effects, and narration. Until World War I, movie screens were dominated by French and Italian studios. During Great War, the American movie industry center, "Hollywood," became the number one in the world. By the 1920s, the U.S. was producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82% of the global total. Hollywood's system and its publicity method, the glamourous star system provided models for all movie industries. Efficient production organization enabled mass movie production and technical sophistication but not artistic expression. In 1915, in France, a group of filmmakers began experimenting with optical and pictorial effects as well as rhythmic editing which became known as French Impressionist Cinema. In Germany, dark, hallucinatory German Expressionism put internal states of mind onscreen and influenced the emerging horror genre. The Soviet cinema was the most radically innovative. In Spain, Luis Buñuel embraced abstract surrealism and pure aestheticism. And, just like that, at about its peak time, the silent cinema era ended in 1926-1928.
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