Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birthplace and early surroundings. Newspapers printed sentimental poems and stories about the "little house in Gori" and latest photographs showed that it had been enclosed in an ornamental stone structure and turned into a Soviet shrine. A Tiflis motion-picture studio started filming Through Historic Localities, a cinema intended to conduct the spectator through every part of the country associated with Joseph Stalin's name...
...North Star put ashore relief supplies, which she would replenish in New Zealand; her two doctors treated almost a quarter of the population for ailments, ranging from scratches to scurvy; her machinists and radio operators went over the island's radio receiver. Biggest treat of all: a long cinema program in the North Star's saloon. The audience, most of whom had never seen films before, cried out in amazement at shots of Manhattan. Next day, when the North Star's forward donkeys upped anchor and the screws began to turn, the natives stood up in their...