The ‘Rex’ open-air cinema in TiranaBACI – Balkan CinemaKarl KasereditorCentre for Southeast European History, University GrazCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:baci.1165Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit FototekaFototeka 18Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit, Tirana Motion Picture IndustryCommercialized EntertainmentPhotograph1939-1943The picture shows the ‘Rex’ open-air cinema in approximately 1940.The ‘Nacional’ cinema in Tirana was Albania’s first European-style cinema, opened by Jusuf Beshir in 1926. During Italian occupation (1939–1943) it was renamed ‘Rex’, and in the subsequent communist era, ‘November 17’.Not specifiedNot specifiedunknownAlbaniaUnknown
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