A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Headline: The Coronet: 'Judith of Bethulia'
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-07-29
Summary:

Exciting much interested comment among local cinema-goers is the movie play 'Judith of Bethulia.' This was the first big film that the master producer, D. W. Griffith ever made, and comparisons are being drawn with his later works, such as 'Intolerance' and 'Way Down…

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Headline: Queen's Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-10-10 - 1924-10-13
Summary:

Friday to Monday, October 10th to 13th at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., Select Pictures presents 'Cecilia of the Pink Roses' featuring Marion Davies. At 2.30 and 7.15 p.m., at special request, 'The Grandson,' a Chinese drama with English titles.

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Headline: Queen's Theatre: 'Cecilia of the Pink Roses'
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-10-11
Summary:

Cecilia of the Pink Roses' the feature attraction at the Queen's Theatre for the weekend, is an interpretation from the popular novel by Katherine Haviland Taylor and drew good houses when it was shown for the first time in Hongkong last night. The story which is on the order of a…

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-02-10 - 1925-02-10
Summary:

Looking back over all the big spectacular pictures we have shown at the Coronet and not forgetting 'Hearts of the World,' 'My Four Years in Germany,' 'Intolerance,' 'Man-Woman-Marriage,' 'Orphans of the Storm,' 'The Four Horsemen,'…

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Headline: Queen's Theatre Attraction: A Spanish Drama
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-02-13
Summary:

Miriam Cooper, the actress who bewitched thousands by her portrayal of one of the Cameron sisters in 'The Birth of a Nation' and in 'Intolerance' will appear at the Queen's Theatre today in 'Serenade,' an R. A. Walsh-First National Attraction. Playing opposite…

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Headline: Queen's Super Cinema: Daily at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15, Sundays at 6, 7.30 and 9.15.
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-09-21 - 1925-09-21
Summary:

Today only, D. W. Griffith presents his great spectacular drama, 'The Fall of Babylon,' being the Babylonian scenes from 'Intolerance' with additions, with a wonderful cast includes Seena Owen, Constance Talmadge, Tully Marshall, Elmer Clifton, Alfred Paget and Elmo Lincoln.…

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Headline: The Cinema: Twenty-Five Years Development - A Clerical Survey
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-07
Summary:

The following is from St. John Cathedral Notes: We had decided to make a reply to Professor Forster's criticisms of the cinema before we had read them. It must be admitted that the cinema gives us a stock of outrageous unreality. The dollar, moreover, is represented in most film stories as…

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Headline: Notable Picture at the Queen's
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-29
Summary:

(By H. W. R. to the S. C. M. Post) When the time comes to write the story of the rise of the moving picture there will, I believe, be found two names that will 'lead the rest;' those of Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. David Wark Griffith has been called the Dickens of the screen.…