Today’s photo is of the RMS Queen Mary’s cinema (circa 1936). At the time of the ship’s launch, the movie theatre was promoted as being “talkie” equipped and featuring a “giant screen”, for the “leisurely pleasure” of first class passengers. While the theatre’s sound quality remains a matter of conjecture, the “giant screen” claim looks to have been a bit of marketing creativity (even by standards of the day).
One can still visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, but the original cinema area was converted to kitchen space shortly after the ship’s 1967 decommissioning.
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