I can't say that I have ever attended a film at 11 am on the 11 of November, so I'm not too sure if theatres today observe Armistice...

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

Radium Hill drive-in c 1952 image courtesy https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+70347 This is the first drive -in theatre...

Crowd outside of The Mayfair Theatre, Rundle Street, Adelaide. c 1935 - photo courtesy of SLSA (https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resou...

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...

A few weeks ago now I had the pleasure of talking to and interviewing Allan Hall. Allan, ran the Ozone Theatre at Semaphore between the...

The Empire Theatre opened in 1909 and continued operation until 1952. It was located at 61 Grote Street, just a little up from Moonta...

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...

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...

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...