A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Headline: Films in the Fast East: How the Cinema Could Help British Prestige - The Censor's Task
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-08-19
Summary:

We have been hearing a great deal lately of the weakening of British prestige in the Far East through our official failure to understand the worldwide importance of cinemas. There are 22 cinemas in Korea and 16 in Manchuria. They appeal only to Koreans, who like American pictures. In Shanghai,…

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Headline: Queen's Theatre: An Excellent Programme
Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1925-09-28
Summary:

Last night, Queen's Theatre screened a Harold Lloyd comedy entitled 'Grandma's Boy.' Film synopsis included. Other features of the programme are a Mack Sennett comedy and a Pathe Gazette, which deals with Boston cinema theatre fire, the Santa Barbara earthquake and the Scopes…

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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…