On the left of the postcard you can see the cinema (hungarian: mozi). It's not as famous as the church. That's why I couldn't find anything about it online.
The cinema had 780 seats in a well soundproofed hall and two large lobbies. After 1991, this cinema was converted into a shopping center.
Here you can learn more about cinemas in Burgas.
The Gartenbaukino in Vienna is a unique cinema in the city. Refounded in 1960, it exudes the grandeur and self-confidence of a classic premiere cinema. With its impressive large screen and 736 seats, it is the last remaining large cinema with only one screen in Vienna's city center.
The cinema regularly uses postcards to draw attention to itself.
Here is a series of 6 postcards:
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| Gartenbaukino, 2011, Photo by Stefan Oláh |
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| Tiled wall in the upper foyer, 2021, photo by Rainer Dempf |
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| Lower foyer, about 1960 |
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| Room, 2011, photo by Stefan Oláh |
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| Room, 1961, photo by Lucca Chmel |
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| Upper foyer, about 1961 |
A postcard to support the Gartenbaukino
The Prince Charles Cinema is not an average movie theater. It's one of the most famous movie theaters in UK.
The building was built by Richard Costain Limited for Alfred Esdaile and designed by Carl Fisher and Associates, originally functioned as a theatre. Later it was reinvented as a kind of soft porn cinema, and began showing European arthouse movies. By the 1980s it also showed horror films.
The Prince Charles was taken over by Robins Cinemas in April 1991, and became largely a repertory cinema. It shows a rotating programme of cult, arthouse, and classic films on two screens (300 and 104 seats). It also regularly hosts a sing-a-long version of The Sound of Music, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Room. The cinema has achieved a cult status amongst moviegoers and filmmakers.
The canopy above the cinema is not only used for regular advertising for films, also for sports and cult film quotes or other current messages. For instance in 2023 the cinema announced that it had no intention of changing its name after the coronation of Prince Charles.
The postcard is a work by Daniel Battams. In 2023, the cinema was threatened with closure, the artist supported with a new print the PCC.
The cinema opened in 1911, and it was very badly damaged in the war. The building was reopened on February 11, 1955, according to the plans of architect Pierre de Born and named in reference to the pre-war cabaret "Berlins Bunte Bühne - BBB". It was no ordinary cinema - in front of the 14-meter-wide Cinemascope screen sprayed the world's largest water organ. And live performances could take place on a 200-m²-stage. But the era of big movie screenings was soon over.
From at least 1975 onwards, films in Turkish were shown here for Turkish-speaking cinema-goers. ATA FILM with Dr. Sakir V. Sözen operated this cinema until its demolition in 1977.
Grenzland-Lichtspiele means Borderland Cinema and goes to its situation on the border with the Czech Republic, just across from the Czech town of Jiříkov. Another cinema Grenzland-Lichtspiele opened in 1919 in the town Neustadt in Sachsen, about 35 km away (and also still shows movies). Perhaps they have more in common than their proximity to the Czech border.
Later the cinema had the names Schauburg and Filmtheater.
The cinema in Ebersbach (since 2011 Ebersbach-Neugersdorf) has worked since 2008. Then it had to close because it needed renovations. But the owner didn't have the money. After careful consideration, the city bought the cinema and had it renovated. The prerequisite for this step was that the cinema would be operated as a non-profit afterward.
Fifteen film and culture enthusiasts came together and have been running the cinema since 2011. With a lot of enthusiasm and support, good films are shown here several evenings a week at Filmtheater Ebersbach.
The postcard was sent in 1943. On the roof you can see advertising for a hotel in the same building. Unfortunately, you can't read the film posters.
The cinema Dózsa Filmszínház is the building on the left of the postcard. On the back of this postcard it says "Üdvözlet Sztálinvárosból = Greetings from Stalin City".
Sztálinvárosból (Stalin City) was the name of the city Dunaújváros from 1951 till 1955. The construction of this new industrial city in Middle Hungary started in 1949 with building a big metal industry complex. Houses, roads, administrative buildings, schools, hospitals and cultural facilities were built for the approximately 28,000 new residents. There are several public statues and reliefs in the town, which represent the allegoric union of workers, peasants and intellectuals, surrounded by traditional folk motifs. Thanks to the inspiration of Bauhaus the buildings and monuments of this era (1949–56), like the forge, the cinema, the theatre, the hospital and the city's schools where characterized by a structural functionalism, but the ideological function resulted in classicist decorations, like columns, tympanums and arcades, because of which the informal name of the style became 'Stalin's Baroque'.
The Dózsa Cinema was designed by György Szrogh (1915-1999). The Hungary's most modern cinema palace at this time was opened on December 20, 1951 with the 1942 Soviet film Оборона Царицына / The Defense of Tsaritsyn.
The cinema named after György Dózsa (1470-1514). He was the leader of the 1514 peasant revolt and is still revered as a Hungarian national hero today. The cinema is called now Kultik Dunaújváros (at Dózsa György Place) and has two screens. It was declared a protected monument on April 13, 2004, and its surroundings were declared a protected monument area.
Two other cinemas opened in the city in 1951: the Szabadság Cinema in Dunapentel on February 21 and the Vasmű Open-Air Cinema on August 17. The Dózsa Cinema still welcomes its audiences today, in keeping with its original function and the technical requirements of the time.
Sassnitz is a town on Germany's largest island, Rügen.
The 1992 closed cinema Stubnitz-Lichtspiele is a listed building. I found this information on the website (very detailed and with many pictures) of Landesdenkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:
"In 1948, a fish combine founded in Sassnitz with 2000 employees and the location with a Baltic Sea port led to the young town developing into an important GDR industrial location. In this context, numerous apartments and schools were built. The planning for the construction of a representative cultural center was already made in 1955, initially a different location was planned for this.
The rapid development of the former fishing village into a town finally led to the construction of the cultural center with an integrated cinema, restaurant and spa, which was completed in 1958. With its location next to the train station and in a prominent urban development position, the Stubnitz cinema quickly developed into the cultural center of the town.
For the development of post-war architecture in the GDR, the cinema building in Sassnitz is an important architectural document of socialist realism with a very good original tradition and state of preservation of high testimony value. The building is impressive in terms of design, functionality and quality of workmanship and was built in a traditional 1950s style, comparable to the cinemas in Crivitz, Lübz, Plau am See, Malchow and Pasewalk. With its extensive original condition and its architectural quality, the cinema in Sassnitz is one of the most important surviving cinema buildings of the 1950s in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania."
The name Stubnitz for this cinema refers to the hilly forest landscape near Sassnitz.
The postcard was published in 1962.
