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A colorized photograph of the interior of an open-air moving-picture theatre built of bamboo, rendered as a night scene under a deep blue sky — the screen surround carrying a sign reading BAMBOO-GARDEN AIR-DROME, PICTURES & DANCING COMBINED, ONE ADMISSION, two hundred empty slat-back chairs in rows on a plank floor, and lit lamps over the cabanas at right
COLORIZED

Inside the Bamboo Garden Air-Drome, c. 1920 · colorized

ca. 1920

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

A colorized reinterpretation of the Gateway NRA photograph of the open-air theatre. The bamboo courses of the screen surround, the walls and the pillars carry their real color for the first time, and the two lamps over the cabanas at right are lit. The source negative is a daylight exposure with a blown-out white sky; this pass reads it as night — a deliberate editorial choice, since an air-drome only ever showed pictures after dark. The sign over the screen still reads BAMBOO-GARDEN AIR-DROME · PICTURES & DANCING COMBINED · ONE ADMISSION, and the room is still empty before a show.

The Gateway NRA photograph and an AI-colorized reinterpretation

The interior of an open-air moving-picture theatre built entirely of bamboo — a large screen surround with a sign reading BAMBOO-GARDEN AIR-DROME, PICTURES AND DANCING COMBINED, ONE ADMISSION, and two hundred empty slat-back chairs in rows on a plank floor
A colorized photograph of the interior of an open-air moving-picture theatre built of bamboo, rendered as a night scene under a deep blue sky — the screen surround carrying a sign reading BAMBOO-GARDEN AIR-DROME, PICTURES & DANCING COMBINED, ONE ADMISSION, two hundred empty slat-back chairs in rows on a plank floor, and lit lamps over the cabanas at right

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Title
Inside the Bamboo Garden Air-Drome, c. 1920 · colorized
Date
ca. 1920
Source
Colorized by Above the Hook · after Gateway NRA Museum Collection
Contributor
Above the Hook · colorization of a Gateway NRA Museum Collection photograph
Rights
Underlying photograph public domain (Gateway NRA Museum Collection
Slug
hb-nps-airdrome-interior-c1920-colorized

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Inside the Bamboo Garden Air-Drome, c. 1920 · colorized (ca. 1920). Colorized by Above the Hook · after Gateway NRA Museum Collection The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/hb-nps-airdrome-interior-c1920-colorized/.