A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1900-04-25 - 1900-04-25
Summary:

First grand change of programme of Ada Delroy Company. And The White Mahatma in weird dream visions as a psychological bewilderment, a huge sensation caused with the London Bioscope. And an entirely new series of pictures depicting recent scenes and incidents in connection with the Transvaal War…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1902-05-07
Summary:

Among the many attractions which will be presented by Barnes' 20th Century Entertainers, who commerce a two-weeks' season in the Theatre Royal, will be a theatrograph. The theatrograph possessed by the Barnes' Company is a huge one. The record cylinders are as big as a silk hat,…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1907-01-05
Summary:

A very good story is told of Mr. Sidney Dark, the dramatic critic, and this year's President of the O.P. Club, who took the chair at the Old Savoyards dinner, Mr. Dark, as is well-known, is the critic of the 'Daily Express,' and went into the sub-editor's room one evening…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1907-07-25
Summary:

Most appreciative crowds attend the cinematograph exhibition nightly in Weismann's large hall, entrance in Wyndham street. There is a huge variety of pictures, and for a pleasant evening the hall is being patronised as a suitable rendezvous.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1908-11-12
Summary:

Shameen, November 10 – The concert at the close of the King's Birthday celebration was a huge success, 400 seats were provided and latecomers had to stand. It was a happy idea to have the cinematograph and the band of the 13th Rajputs. Miss H. Thorne was demanded to have an encore for each…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1909-07-17
Summary:

Last night, at the Ko Shing Theatre, a series of comic and instructive films were thrown on the screen by the American Cinematograph Company before a preponderatingly Chinese audience. It cannot be said that all the pictures were clear and distinct, several of them being dimmed to an extent…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1910-06-24
Summary:

The coolest and most practical observer of China today cannot but be bewildered at the conflicting reports from the various parts of the huge Empire. History in China today is cinematographic. The flickering films of this incident make it impossible for us to judge calmly the entire picture.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1912-09-17
Summary:

Sydney, August 15 – A huge crowd went to the Langford-McVea match, which was the opening fight for the new roofed building. The Stadium is now something remarkable as a pugilistic arena. There is also an apparatus for light which enables moving pictures to be taken by night as well as by day.…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1913-02-13
Summary:

Canton, Feb. 10 – To the surprise of the people in Canton, there is a huge demand for the flowers. People thronged the street everywhere and theatres and cinematograph are unusually crowded.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1913-05-16
Summary:

A large number of audience was disappointed as they were not able to watch Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' due to the huge demand. Film plot included.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1914-02-27
Summary:

Special pictures of the Hong Kong Races were screened at the premises of the Variety Film Exchange Company, Kowloon, yesterday afternoon, for a Government House party. Lady May, the Misses May, Captain Connolly, Mr. T.F. Hough and other ladies and gentlemen were present. Other films were…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1914-10-28
Summary:

The second film of Pathe's War Gazette has been received in Hong Kong and will be shown at the Bijou Theatre. The pictures include the first prize of war, a German ship being towed into Yarmouth; the entry of the French into Alsace and paying off British troops. Scenes in Paris on the…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1914-11-12
Summary:

The war pictures showing at the Victoria Theatre were a huge success last night. Tomorrow night, in addition to the pictures already shown, a new series 'Boys of the Bulldog Breed' will be screened and this should prove even more popular than 'The Outbreak of War.'

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1915-11-10 - 1915-11-12
Summary:

Last night, Nov 12, Midnight at Maxim's, the Maxim, Bustanoby and Rector beauties together with Baroness Ormard von Rottenthall, Leo Pirnikoff and Ethel Rose, the cameron girls, Bert Weston and Dorothy Ozuman; special music performance; also Charles Chaplin in the 'Property Man'…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1916-12-02
Summary:

The farewell performance of the Howitt-Phillips Company took place at the Victoria Theatre. The production was a huge success, a fitting finale to the Company's visit. The company presented 'What the Butler Saw,' played by Jack Barrington and Mrs. Barrington, Mr. Charles Howitt…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1917-06-28
Summary:

The Victoria Theatre was again crowded to over flowing last night when the official films of the Battle of the Somme were shown for the second time. These pictures are beautifully clear, and they give a wonderfully realistic impression of what the actual fighting on the Western Front is like.…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-08-14 - 1918-08-14
Summary:

History repeats itself. When 'Thou Shalt Not' was produced in England some four months ago, upwards of a hundred copies of the film were put into circulation. Despite this fact, there were ‘kicks' from all over the country about the non-arrival of the film on the appointed day,…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1918-10-24
Summary:

Tonight's Attraction: There will doubtless be huge crowds at the Botanical Gardens Tonight, for a most attractive programme has been arranged. Music will be supplied by the bands of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society and the 18th Infantry, and other features will be conjured by a famous…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1918-11-29
Summary:

Enough of American motion picture films to stretch around the world at the equator were exported from the United States in the fiscal year ending June 1918. The total length was, in round terms, 160,000,000ft., amounting in total to over 30,000 miles and of these nearly 100,000,000 were '…

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Headline: Coronet Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-01-01 - 1919-01-01
Summary:

In pursuance of our policy of offering only the best to our patrons, we have secured Pathe's wonderful picture, 'New York,' a story of the great white way for our next programme. In its stage version, its well-knit story and the gripping scenes which lead up to its amazing climax…