Two women stand outside the entrance of Korzo, one of Novi Sad's earliest permanent cinemas, in the courtyard of the Svojina complex at today's Zmaj Jovina 4. The small freestanding building was originally constructed in 1901 as a photographic atelier from a project signed by Anton Tikmajer and was later converted for cinema use. Research on the development of cinematography in Novi Sad dates the opening of Korzo to 1912. Its hall became an important site in the city's early film culture and was associated with the premiere of Vladimir Totović's locally produced film Lopov-detektiv. The photograph shows the cinema's decorated entrance façade with its Serbian Cyrillic sign above the three arched openings.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.