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: 1920-03-25
Summary:

An article about the Church Pictorial Movement, for reaching large mass by using kinema into English villages. Its motor-vans, conveying projectors, dramatic films, the screen, and the operators, are on the road in Somerset and Gloucester each week, on regular circuits. There were both…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1921-06-14
Summary:

Hongkong Amusement Ltd., open a new Theatre located in Nathan Road of Kowloon. A big roomy place the new theatre is fitted with a battery of electric fans that set up a breeze fresh enough to blow out every match in the box when you begin to light up your pipe. The chairs are those comfortable…

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Headline: Coronet Theatre
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1921-06-15
Summary:

Kowloon Kinema tonight provides the latest episodes of 'Lost City.' At the Coronet tonight Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird' will be screened along with a 'Snub' comedy.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-03-22
Summary:

The Coronet Theatre shows Mary Pickford comedy 'The Hoodlum' for last time. Tomorrow it will screen Marshall Neilan's 'Go and Get It.' While Kowloon Theatre presents Mary Miles Minter in 'Jenny, Be Good,' for last time.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-03-23
Summary:

Go and Get It,' a First National production, is the feature at the Coronet Theatre this evening. Film synopsis included.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-03-29
Summary:

Hugely successful, the Kowloon Theatre's balloon dancer last night drew a record crowd and kept it greatly amused the whole evening. Marshall Neilan's great newspaper adventure picture 'Go and Get It' makes its last appearance tonight. Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-10-23
Summary:

False Faces' was screened at the Coronet Theatre yesterday. Film plot included.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-05-09
Summary:

Lorna Doone,' a film based on Blackmore's famous novel, opens at the Queen's Theatre today. Critics declare that 'Lorna Doone' far outstrip even 'Treasure Island' and 'The Bluebird.'