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Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1927 program at the government-run Municipal Educational Cinematograph in Łódź. The main feature advertised is the 1915 Russian film The Deluge (Potop), directed by Pyotr Chardynin and based…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1928 program at the government-run Municipal Educational Cinematograph in Łódź. The main feature advertised was Fritz Lang's newly-completed masterpiece Metropolis. An expressionist dystopia…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1933 screening of a Buster Keaton film at the movie theaters Adria and Metro in Łódź. Buster Keaton's vaudeville-like performances were immensely popular in Łódź during the 1920s and into…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1926 screening of The Thief of Baghdad at the movie theater Luna, one of the most elegant cinema venues in Łódź. The special effects and visual magic made this 1924 film, based on 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…

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 East and West at the movie theater Bajka in Bałuty. Completed in 1923, East and West, Molly Picon's earliest film, tells the lighthearted story of a "modern" New York Jew…

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1933 screening of Blonde Venus at the movie theater Zacheta in Bałuty. In the 1932 film Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich portrays a woman who is caught between two different roles: that of a…

An ad from the fiftieth anniversary edition of Der Lodzer Zeitung applauding the amenities of cinema Casino. The photograph shows the auditorium with its chic décor—elegant self-opening seats, wood paneling, and the back of the room with its arched…

An ad from the fiftieth anniversary edition of Der Lodzer Zeitung applauding the amenities of cinema Luna. The six photographs included in the ad show an uniformed usher greeting the guests at the opulent entry to the theatre (with a large poster…