Day: April 13, 2014

At the Cinema: When Love is Crowned

Source: Unidentified artist, ‘At the Cinema: When Love is Crowned’, unsent postcard c.1914, from the Luke McKernan collection

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Comments: This peculiar postcard is one of a series in which the same children dressed as adults react to different kinds of film in the cinema. Another in the series is ‘The Tragic Film‘.

At the Cinema: The Tragic Film

Source: Unidentified artist, ‘At the Cinema: The Tragic Film’, postcard sent from Britain to Amay, Belgium, March 1914, from the Nicholas Hiley collection

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Comments: This peculiar postcard is one of a series in which the same children dressed as adults react to different kinds of film in the cinema. Another in the series is ‘When Love is Crowned‘.