A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-01 - 1922-09-01
Summary:

Love's Crucible.' Film plot included.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-01 - 1922-09-02
Summary:

The Coronet: 'Love's Crucible,' in 9 reels. Kowloon Theatre: Tonight at 9.15, Harold Lloyd in 'Number Please' and Mabel Normand in 'Peck's Bag Girl' [sic].

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-11 - 1922-09-11
Summary:

The Coronet: At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15, Mary Pickford in 'Heart o' the Hills.' Kowloon Theatre: Tonight at 9.15 only, 'Love's Crucible,' and Gazette.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-01
Summary:

Coronet Theatre is going to screen 'Love's Crucible.' Film synopsis included.

5
Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-02
Summary:

Coronet Theatre screened a Swedish picture, 'Love's Crucible,' for the first time yesterday. The Theatre was decorated with a grey old Gothic archway outside and a stained glass window inside. The film revolved around the topic of religious superstition in the medieval era.…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-10-25
Summary:

Hongkong Amusement, Ltd. announce the big attractions for the Kowloon people. Kowloon Theatre is going to screen the first Finnish picture of the colony, entitled 'Flame of Life,' a film version of a Finnish novel. The film is produced by the Swedish Biograph Company which also…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-11-01
Summary:

Coronet Theatre is going to screen 'The Fame of Life,' the first Finnish film to be shown in the Colony. The film is the second production of the Swedish Biograph Company, the first one was 'Love's Crucible.' Based on a Finnish novel, the film features Lars Hanson.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-12-28
Summary:

Kowloon Theatre is showing the Swedish film entitled 'Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness.' The film is extraordinarily lauded by London Times. The film promises to be far ahead of its forerunners like 'Love's Crucible' and 'The Flame of Life.'

10
Headline: Some Chatter
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-07-14
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-09-01
Summary:

Love's Crucible,' the fine Swedish film which is being shown at the Coronet Theatre today, has an atmosphere of religious superstition around. Film plot included.

12
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-09-02
Summary:

The best picture we've seen for a long time' was the general verdict of those who saw 'Love's Crucible,' the Swedish picture screened at the Coronet yesterday.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-10-25
Summary:

Hongkong Amusement Ltd., announces two big attractions for the Kowloon Theatre today and tomorrow: First Finnish picture to be screened in the Colony, 'Flame of Life,' which is produced by the Swedish Biograph Company, the same people who gave us 'Love's Crucible.' The…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-11-01
Summary:

The Flame of Life,' which comes to the Coronet Theatre today, is the first Finnish film that has been shown in Hongkong. The film is the second production issued by the Swedish Biograph Company after 'Love's Crucible.' Lars Hanson, the famous Swedish actor, is in the leading…

15
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-12-28
Summary:

London Times praise a picture 'Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness,' the great Swedish film which is being shown at the Kowloon Theatre this week. Films like 'Love's Crucible' and 'The Flame of Life' have shown local kinema goers something of what Scandinavian…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-08-31 - 1922-08-31
Summary:

An open letter to the editor of 'The Rock.' Sir, on various occasions you have lamented, in the editorial columns of your erudite little monthly, the low standard of moving pictures shown in the colony of Hongkong; you have also been pleased to praise one particular production that was…

17
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-09-01 - 1922-09-02
Summary:

You must slip back from the twentieth to the fifteenth century, if you come and see 'Love's Crucible.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-09-01 - 1922-09-02
Summary:

The Coronet: 'Love's Crucible' in 9 reels. Kowloon Theatre: Tonight at 9.15, Harold Lloyd in 'Number, Please?' and Mabel Normand in 'Peck's Bad Girl.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-09-11 - 1922-09-11
Summary:

The Coronet: 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15, Mary Pickford in 'Heart o' the Hills.' Kowloon Theatre: At 9.15 only, 'Love's Crucible.' Also Gazette.