Loew’s Commodore Theater, circa 1942, photo by Arthur “Weegee” Fellig

“I would look at that light as a pious boy might react to a shaft of sunlight in a cathedral. I still find it a slightly mystical experience. Something to do with forbidden and secret things.”

-David Lean, remembering sitting beneath the projector’s beam in the movie theater as a child

Stanley Kubrick, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Christiane Kubrick, & Weegee during the filming of the pie fight scene that was cut from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (via)