Lost Footsteps
Lost Footsteps
Yangon’s oldest cinema
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1920

Yangon’s oldest cinema

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The New Excelsior theatre on Montgomery Street (now the Waziya on Bogyoke Aung San Street) c. 1950 screening the Esther Williams musical "Bathing Beauty". It is the oldest cinema in Yangon and was built in the 1920s.

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