I recently attended a talk by American academic Professor Julie Allen. Allen - who is an academic from Brigham Young University in the...

Image courtesy of Victa Cinemas Victa Cinema - Entertaining the Fleurieu since 1923 (victacinemas.com.au) The Victor Harbor Times and...

West's Theatres "Win a Pony competition" c 1957. The prize was part of a promotion campaign for the Tim Hovey Film, The Private War of...

Interior Terowie Institute (photo reproduced courtesy of Philip Wood) Showing the bio box and seating in the Terowie Institute building...

The York Picture Theatre building c 1921. Image courtesy of State Library of South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource...

The Working Man's Association (W.M.A) Theatre in Port Adelaide - image author's own. The WMA Theatre is located on Nile Street in Port...

Adelaide Plan No 11. c1911-1914 - which clearly shows the location of the Pavilion Picture Theatre. Image courtesy of State Library of...

Orroroo Institute (Home of Renown Pictures), 12th October 1962. Image Courtesy of Orroroo Historical Society and District Council of...

Plaque outside the Orroroo Institute Image author's own. In July 1920 the Quorn Mercury reported that Mr JH McDougall had recently...

Woodville Town Hall's proscenium (Image author's own). When the new Woodville Town Hall opened in April 1927, the Woodville Hall...

Image of the crowd gathered outside of Star Pictures (Anzac Theatre) to survey the damage from the fire in 1920. Fire at Star Picture...

Alec Holborn's photograph album [B 70990/190] • Photograph Photo Courtesy: State Libary of SA On October 26, 1923, National Pictures...

Image Courtesy State Library of SA [B 71977] Image courtesy of Trove (The Register, 4th Jan 1928) On Tuesday the 24th January 1928, Dan...

Picture courtesy of SA State Library Outdoor Picture Theatre [B 50194] W. Lesley Boyle set up an outdoor screen for those warmer nights...

This shall be an ongoing article about the introduction of ‘talkies’ to South Australian picture theatres. I will start with just placing...

On the 17th May 1911 in the Old Institute building located on Commercial Street, Star Pictures Mt Gambier opened. Operated by A Rook, the...

Semaphore Wondergraph c 1930 Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+5541/3...

This article appeared in The Advertiser 22nd October, 1928. The then Managing Director of Hoyts, Mr G F Griffith talks about the upcoming...