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: 1921-12-27
Summary:

Ordinarily, December 25 turns out to be an 'off' day in the picture show business. There are so many counter attractions in the shape of family foregatherings and Christmas parties that the kinema is left usually to become the refuge of those unfortunates who find themselves at the…

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

With Edged Tools,' a British film was shown at world Theatre last night which attracted a large number of people at both shows. Although the lavishness of studio scenes which one sees in the majority of American films, is lacking in this British production, the individual actors matched the…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-09-23
Summary:

Married Life,' a production under the Mack Sennett Studios, featuring Ben Turpin, is to be shown at the Coronet Theatre for the first time tomorrow.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-09-23
Summary:

Coronet Theatre is going to screen 'Married Life' tomorrow. The comedy is produced by Mack Sennett studios. Featuring Ben Turpin, the film promises great entertainment.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-09-25
Summary:

Married Life,' a five-reel Mack Sennett comedy in which Ben Turpin takes the principal part, was presented at the Coronet Theatre yesterday.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-11-22
Summary:

General Film Company's biographical feature 'Bonds that Chafe' is going to show at the Star Theatre. The films with which the Swedish Biograph has established so high a reputation for artistic production have been so much on the sombre side that a light comedy from that studio has…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-12-22
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Headline: Film City Razed
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-01-05
Summary:

Los Angeles, Cal., Dec 28 – It is reported that a terrific fire swept over Universal City early this morning completely destroying buildings and studio equipment valued at $330,000. Norman Kerry and Edward Bush were both badly burned. – China Press

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-01-18
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-02-21
Summary:

New York, Feb 19 – Fire has destroyed the Cosmopolitan Film Studios. The damage is estimated at a million dollars.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-02-25
Summary:

(Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan 18 – The latest recruit from Society to the film studio is the Marchioness of Queensberry, who 'features' the gipsy heroine in 'The Romany' with Victor Maclaglan [sic].

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-03-17
Summary:

Questioned as to the film industry of California in its relation to China, Mr. Thomas A. Graham, Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, said he felt sure that there was every prospect of further development, and there was a vast field for enterprise in opening…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-04-03
Summary:

This is no less than the founding in the Colony of a motion picture company to produce Chinese plays and dramas. The China Sun Motion Pictures Company, Limited, is in the field with a capital of half a million dollars which it desires to be usefully and profitably employed in the starting of a…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-04-04
Summary:

A new project for founding a motion picture company for the production of Chinese plays and dramas is now being floated in the Colony. Backed by a capital of half a million dollars, the China Sun Motion Pictures Company, the leading spirit of which is Mr. Lai Hoi-san, proposes to screen dramas,…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-06-15
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-06-16
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Headline: Personalities
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-06-23