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Pfeiffer’s photograph of a paved marketplace, with St. Mary’s Church in the background. The picture frame is packed with shopping and vending people. Looking at it we can almost hear the sound of a bustling bazaar. In the foreground, we see a…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of a Josephine Baker film (probably the 1927 Siren of the Tropics) at the movie theater Era in Bałuty. Baker's role of Papitou, an exotic girl who follows her love from the…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of a Josephine Baker film (probably the 1927 Siren of the Tropics) at the movie theater Era in Bałuty. Baker's role of Papitou, an exotic girl who follows her love from the…

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The fully operational keiserpanorama at the Film Museum in Łódź is one of a handful of original keiserpanoramas built by August Fuhrmann’s firm, which survive until our time. Inside the wooden case, a revolving mechanism projects images on glass…

Krótka Street was typical of Bałuty in the years leading up to World War II. The cobblestone pavement possessed rain gutters but no sidewalks, encouraging pedestrians to walk across its full expanse. The single- and two-storey homes, usually made of…

Ad from a 1903 calendar, publicizing film presentation in one of the earliest cinematic venues in Łódź, the American Bioscope, owned by the enterprising Krzemiński brothers. Most of the films shown here were the brief but beautifully imaginative…