lisboa: cinema europa
[Some material for this post originally published as “keeping it reel 1” on 10 Oct 2007. Older photos from the Lisbon City Archive.]
![Portugal, Lisboa, Cinema Europa, Antero Ferreira, 1958 Portugal, Lisboa, Cinema Europa, Antero Ferreira, 1958](http://www.endlessmile.com/images/201008/cineeuropa01.jpg)
Since movies with sound grew in popularity during the 1930s & 1940s, it was only appropriate that cinema architecture became a spectacle in itself. Grand productions were meant to be seen in grand theaters. Some of the most stunning Art Deco & Rationalist/Modernist buildings I’ve seen around the world are remnants of that era, but unfortunately they are disappearing at an alarming rate.
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