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

Exterior view of State Theatre, Hindley Street, Adelaide, Image courtesy of State Library of South Australia. Photo; Vic Grimmett c 1957...

Exterior – Star Theatre, 1954 Now called the Capri Theatre and still thankfully very much running as a picture theatre. Today it is run...

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...

The Register , dated Saturday 26th March 1910, has a report of a fire at Best’s Canvas Pictures which had taken place on the previous...

I came across this photo, it would be years ago now, and I have to say it lead to my interest in wanting to know more about the picture...

On the 5th December, 1908 Adelaide’s first permanent Picture Theatre opened in Hindley Street (Walker 1995, p. 15). Owned by T J West,...

By chance came across this photo on the State Library of South Australia’s Flickr page, and I thought I needed to share it. The photo is...

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

I found this image on Trove along with the information that this is thought to be the delivery of film in 1909 to one of West’s cinemas...

Best’s Pictures opened in October 1909, above is an article which appeared in The Register newspaper on the 25th October 1909. It states...