What's in Movie Theaters Tonight? | LOC's Public Domain Archive collections

The old Senator movie theater became a live-music venue in this lively...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, Ca...

The theater, opened in 1942, is among the last Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, Ca...

The theater, opened in 1942, is among the last Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

Ada Theatre, 700 Main Street, Boise, Ada County, ID

Significance: Still used as originally planned, this neo-Egyptian Revival Style building, unique to Idaho, is the only survivor of the movie palace and grand cinema era in Boise. The theater was designed by Tou... More

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A....

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glen White in Gem's great instructive play, Absinthe--Reflective momen...

Motion picture poster for "Absinthe" shows a man seated, with hand on head, at table with three glasses of absinthe. Universal films trademark in lower left corner.

The Wedding march, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The Wedding March" shows Eric von Stroheim as the character Prince Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg. Purchase; 1975. A Paramount Pictures film. No. 2853.

Poster - Saturday night, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for the film "Saturday Night" shows a flirtatious young woman and an older man seated at a restaurant or nightclub table. Behind the young woman stands a worried looking young man wearing a fez(?).

Poster - Three friends, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "Three Friends" shows three men clasping hands while sitting at a table in a bar.

The Rustler's reformation, Movie Poster

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, ...

Photograph shows side of Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County...

Significance: The Academy Building was constructed by the Borden Family, textile entrepreneurs of Fall River. The prominent structure, with Ruskinian Gothic details, was designed by Hartwell and Swasey of Bost... More

[Entrances of moving picture theaters, no. 10, Normal Theatre, 6850 Ha...

Halftone reproduction of photograph. Copyright by Decorators' Supply Co. Public domain photograph of movie theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain pho... More

[Entrances of moving picture theaters, (Chicago?), no. 8, Revelry Thea...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kindly remain seated, Motion Picture Theaters

Photo shows children at beach. Positive paper print from lantern slide used in motion picture theaters as announcement. Each text superimposed on humorous photograph, and the whole shown in a fancy carved frame... More

On duty, George Kleine presents the uproarious melodramatic farce by A...

Motion picture poster for "Officer 666" shows a caricature of a policeman with arms raised as if directing traffic. "From the play by arrangement with Messrs. Geo. M. Cohan and Sam Harris."

The newsboy tenor A message of love.

Motion picture poster for "The Newsboy Tenor" shows a woman and a girl in an interior. "Selig drama."

The going of the white swan - Public domain movie poster

Motion picture poster for "The going of the white swan" shows a man holding the hand of a woman, wearing a fur coat, whose arm is around the shoulder of a boy wrapped in a blanket with bandages on both his head... More

Höllerkampf an d. Aisne / H.R. Erdt.

Poster shows a side view of a German soldier in battle. His rifle is slung over his shoulder and he has grenades in each hand; a bag of grenades also hangs from his shoulder. Flames(?) surround him. Text is tit... More

Sidney [...], West Virginia theater, Motion Picture Theaters

Photograph showing a movie theater playing The Crucible of Life; men are gathered in front of the theater viewing a captured German machine gun and another piece of equipment; signs on the theater display anti-... More

D. W. Griffith presents way down east

Motion picture poster for "Way Down East" shows a man carrying a woman through the snow.

The Crimson skull, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster showing a man and woman in western garb with a horse standing between them. The Norman Film M'f'g Co. presents "The Crimson Skull." Baffling western mystery photoplay co-starring Anita Bu... More

Projecting movies in the school auditorium in Centralhatchee, Georgia,...

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fully restored by the City of Texarkana, Texas in 1979-80. Native son H. Ross Perot, through the Perot Foundation, contributed much o... More

Under four flags Third United States official war picture.

Poster showing Allied soldiers storming over the crest of a hill, carrying bayonets. Presented by Division of Films, Committee on Public Information, George Creel, chairman. Taken by the official photographers... More

"The Bandit of Point Loma - a stirring western showing how the light-h...

Motion picture poster for "The bandit of Point Loma" shows a man and woman standing together on a cliff looking out at the ocean, a distant settlement, and a lighthouse; man has arm around woman's shoulder. Ca... More

Forging the weapons of war, official United States war film / Ioseph P...

Poster showing cranes in a shipyard. Produced by Signal Corps, U.S.A. and Committee on Public Information.

"Jimmie the Porter; True Love in Disguise"

Motion picture poster for "Jimmie the porter, true love in disguise" shows an African American man, possibly Sidney Smith, shining shoes. Copyright 1914 by Selig Studio. Motion Picture Poster Collection.

An Unselfish love, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "An Unselfish Love" shows a man and a woman on a farm standing by a hog pen. An Edison film. No. 5851.

The Wedding march, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The Wedding March" shows Eric von Stroheim as the character Prince Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg. Purchase; 1975. A Paramount Pictures film. No. 2853.

Pershing's crusaders--Auspices of the United States government / The H...

Poster showing Pershing leading troops, with spirits of crusaders floating above.

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blue Island, Illinois. The Senise family going to the movies

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Metropolis] / Klebrand., Art Deco Poster, Movie Poster

Poster for Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" shows the character Maria in Rotwang's transformation machine. Exchange ; Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Poster - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "The Passion of Joan of Arc" shows Renée Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc. no. 1 a: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1975:115). no. 1 b: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1977:118). Caption: An immortal screen class... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

[Princess Theatre], Motion Picture Theaters

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alexander the man who knows - Public domain print

At head of title: Pantages, Minneapolis; week com. Sun. Mar. 30. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of... More

Adjusting film. Show will continue in a few minutes

Paper print made from lantern slide used as announcemenet in motion picture theaters. Text appears with photo of girl hammering at a film projector. "No. C 6." Copyright claimant: The Electro Mechanical Co., Cl... More

If you expect to rate as a gentleman, you will not expectorate on the ...

Paper print made from lantern slide used as announcemenet in motion picture theaters. Text appears with a border design. "No. B 17." Copyright claimant: Electro Mechanical Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Ladies kindly remove your hats, Motion Picture Theaters

Positive paper print from lantern slide used in motion picture theaters as announcement. Each text superimposed on humorous photograph, and the whole shown in a fancy carved frame. J170054 U.S. Copyright Office... More

Her victory eternal The jealousy of fate.

Motion picture poster for "Her Victory Eternal" shows a woman holding a bouquet surrounded by two men with another woman in the background.

Birth place of telephone, 109 Court St., Boston, Massachusetts ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Der Frieden mit der Ukraine. Neuester Film / HRE.

Poster shows a stylized map of Ukraine and part of a large ring(?). Text is title of film. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Dated in crayon on verso.

Viers Mill theater. Exterior of Viers Mill theater

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children at a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Penns...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crowd coming out of Regal movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinoi...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

School teachers in Centralhatchee, Georgia, have organized movies in t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sheffield is home to the Ritz Theater, a 1920's silent movie house tha...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Houdini in The master mystery a super-serial in fifteen episodes.

"B.A. Rolfe Productions, Octagon Films, Inc." "Episode twelve, The death noose." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congres... More

Forging the weapons of war, official United States war film / Ioseph P...

Poster showing cranes in a shipyard. Produced by Signal Corps, U.S.A. and Committee on Public Information.

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Lyman H. Howe's high class moving pictures - new magic pictures / Cour...

Motion picture poster for "Lyman H. Howe's high class moving pictures - new magic pictures" shows people watching motion picture in theater, includes insert of head-and-shoulders portrait of Lyman H. Howe. Cop... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Jack Gardner in Open Places, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "Open places" shows a man and woman, possibly Jack Gardner and Ruth King, facing each other. Controlled by the Essanay Film Co., Chicago, Ill. Trademark logos: Essanay.

Lyman H. Howe's new marvels in moving pictures / Courier Litho. Co., B...

Motion picture poster for "Lyman H. Howe's new marvels in moving pictures" shows people watching a motion picture in a theater of a battle at sea during the Spanish-American War; includes insert of head-and-sho... More

Poster - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "The Passion of Joan of Arc" shows Renée Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc. no. 1 a: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1975:115). no. 1 b: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1977:118). Caption: An immortal screen class... More

The Salted mine (Carson), Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The salted mine" shows a man and woman in a forest. In the foreground, the man sits on a stool in front of his horse; in the background, the woman sits astride a horse. A Film Import... More

The Real thing in cowboys cupid in chaps.

Motion picture poster for "The Real thing in cowboys" shows one cowboy kneeling in front of another cowboy, possibly Tom Mix, and an alarmed woman standing alongside. Copyright 1914 by Selig Polyscope Co. A Se... More

The Real thing in cowboys cupid in chaps.

Motion picture poster for "The Real thing in cowboys" shows one cowboy kneeling in front of another cowboy, possibly Tom Mix, and an alarmed woman standing alongside. Copyright 1914 by Selig Polyscope Co. A Se... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County...

Significance: The Academy Building was constructed by the Borden Family, textile entrepreneurs of Fall River. The prominent structure, with Ruskinian Gothic details, was designed by Hartwell and Swasey of Bost... More

Good night / D'Artois., Motion Picture Theaters

Paper print made from lantern slide used as announcemenet in motion picture theaters. Text appears with an Art Nouveau design. "No. A 16." Copyright claimant: Electro Mechanical Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Title and ... More

Call again. Always something new / D'Artois.

Paper print made from lantern slide used as announcemenet in motion picture theaters. Text appears with an Art Nouveau design showing donkey and words "Maud, her stall." "No. A 15" and "23." Copyright claimant:... More

[Entrances of moving picture theaters, (Chicago?), no. 7, Sheldon Thea...

Halftone reproduction of photograph. Copyright by Decorators' Supply Co. Public domain photograph of movie theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Please applaud with hands only, Motion Picture Theaters

Positive paper print from lantern slide used in motion picture theaters as announcement. Each text superimposed on humorous photograph, and the whole shown in a fancy carved frame.

Quo Vadis Thumb down., Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "Quo Vadis" shows gladiator, holding sword and shield, with foot on chest of fallen man; the emperor in box gives a thumb down. Copyright 1913 by George Klein. No. 05337.A. George Kle... More

Quo Vadis Ursus rescues Lygia., Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "Quo Vadis" shows Ursus, holding an unconscious Lygia, while fist raised ready to strike a crouching man.

The way of the redman Blood of his fathers.

Motion picture poster for "The Way of the Redman" shows a Native American man standing next to a man (Tom Mix) tied to a tree. "Selig drama."

Tel Aviv. Moghrabi theatre. Movie picture-house.

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Green eyed monster, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster text. The Norman Film Mfg. Co. presents "The Green Eyed Monster" with an all-colored cast. $1,000,000 worth of railroad equipment was used in the filming of the production. An $80,000 tra... More

Front of movie theatre, San Antonio, Texas

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Movie theater on main street of Central City, California, Shasta Count...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At a movie house on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a grocery or convenience store, food, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a poster. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negat...

Public domain photograph of sport activity, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The old Senator movie theater became a live-music venue in this lively...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Star Lite Outdoor Theater, Route 81-B, Fargo, North Dakota (LOC)

Margolies, John,, photographer...Star Lite Outdoor Theater, Route 81-B, Fargo, North Dakota..1980...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date and keywords based on informati... More

State Drive-In Theater sign, closer view, Route 24, State Avenue, Kans...

Margolies, John,, photographer...State Drive-In Theater sign, closer view, Route 24, State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas..1994...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date and ... More

The Pastime moving picture show, Movie Poster

Advertising poster for Thomas Edison's kinetoscope films shows in the background, a boardwalk visible on the horizon; in the foreground, two women are perched on a rock in the ocean, they are wearing turn-of-th... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

"B. Albert Cook's high-class moving pictures"

Douglas Fairbanks in The black pirate

Motion picture poster for "The Black Pirate" showing Douglas Fairbanks in romantic and swashbuckling scenes.

Poster - A Barber cure, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "A Barber Cure" shows a woman whispering into a man's ear as an older man reaches for food on the table. Caption: Mind your manners. He's a count. - Farce comedy. A Biograph film. No. 9821.

"Hearts of the world" A love story of the great war.

Motion picture poster showing soldier holding whip over woman laying across basket of vegetables in a field, a cart with basket of vegetables in the background. Battle scenes taken on the battle fields of Franc... More

The regeneration of worthless Dan, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The regeneration of worthless Dan" shows a man wearing a cowboy hat talking and gesturing with his hands to a seated man, possibly R. Henry Grey. Grey rests his arm on the table betwe... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More