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Book SynopsisHighlighting the emotional resonance of film and the loyalty of Baltimoreans to their neighborhoods, Flickering Treasures is a profound story of change, loss, and rebirth.
Trade ReviewJuxtaposing current conditions with historical photos, Davis shows how much time has altered the face of our city. Her book is a comment on this transition, and a reminder that change is the only constant.
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Baltimore MagazineFlickering Treasures is not only a collection of beautiful and evocative photos, but a sociological journey through twentieth-century America. Having Baltimore-bred filmmaker Barry Levinson contribute a foreword is icing on the cake.
—Leonard Maltin, film critic, author of
Leonard Maltin’s Movie GuideThis is the finest coffee table book about a local subject that I've seen . . . This is amazing.
—Marty Bass,
WJZ-TV. . . [Flickering Treasures] would make a nice gift for anyone who loves movies, architecture, or the city of Baltimore.
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Saving PlacesAmy Davis, a photojournalist for the Baltimore Sun, combines vintage with modern color image contrasts to document these urban wonders, considering the social, economic, technological, and political influences on their rise and fall as she crafts a beautiful, iconic collection that will appear to readers far beyond Baltimore City's borders.
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Donovan's Literary ServicesThis book belongs in the library of every Baltimorean that loves movies and their city’s history. I’m giving “Flickering Treasures” Five Stars and the highest recommendation.
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Media Mentors NetworkFlickering Treasures is not only a collection of beautiful and evocative photos, but a sociological journey through 20th century America
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Leonard MaltinJuxtaposing current conditions with historical photos, Davis shows how much time has altered the face of our city. Her book is a comment on this transition, and a reminder that change is the only constant.
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Baltimore MagazineThe book is an engaging, often fun and frequently nostalgically joyful combination of historical images and theater "biographies" that are tied to conversational memories as expressed by those with the greatest familiarity with the theaters.
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New York-Pennsylvania CollectorThe strength of
Flickering Treasures lies in the numerous photographs that take center stage in this book in which [Davis] juxtaposes numerous vintage with her own artful photographs in order to procure a "dialogue with the past, not its replication". Consequently, her book does not merely document how numerous movie theaters became stores, office buildings, churches or were taken over by nature. Instead, the photographs create a compelling story that highlights that the history of Baltimore's forgotten movie theaters is also about transformations, opportunity, loss and lack of (architectural) preservation or neglect.
—Susana Rocha Teixeira, Universität Bielefeld,
SehepunkteBetween the pages of this book lies a deep dive into the colourful and rich moviegoing history of Baltimore (US). Davis' meticulously researched, beautifully photographed, and professionally presented title is a proverbial treasure trove.
—Marc Zimmerman,
Cinema Heritage GroupTable of ContentsForeward, by Barry Levinson
Preface
1. 1896–1909
2. 1910–1914
3. 1915–1919
4. 1920–1924
5. 1925–1929
6. 1930–1939
7. 1940–1949
8. 1950–2017
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Map and Timeline
Notes on Research
Credits
Index of Contributors
Index of Theaters
