A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1907-07-26 - 1907-07-26
Summary:

Cinematograph Pathe opened for the season; Film screening of 'Cinderella and the Glass Slipper'; Electric fans are provided, price details included

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1907-07-27 - 1907-07-27
Summary:

Cinematograph Pathe opened for the season; Film screening of 'Cinderella and the Glass Slipper', matinee at 4 o'clock; Electric fans are provided; Children half price

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1907-07-29 - 1907-07-31
Summary:

Cinematograph Pathe opened for the season; Film screening of 'Cinderella and the Glass Slipper'; Electric fans are provided; Children half price, price details included

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1909-05-15 - 1909-05-17
Summary:

Grand opening night for a few nights only. Sensational novelties including bare foot dancing on glasses by Professor Vicente Kemppo

5
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1909-05-18 - 1909-05-19
Summary:

For a few nights only. Sensational novelties including bare foot dancing on glasses by Professor Vicente Kemppo

6
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1909-05-19
Summary:

The big turn at the Hongkong Cinematograph is Professor Vicente Kemppo [sic], who entertains his audience by chewing glass lamp chimneys, and grinding broken glasses with his bareback. A liberal programme of interesting pictures is shown, but the enjoyment is somewhat detracted from by the…

7
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1912-08-08 - 1912-08-12
Summary:

The great dramatic picture 'A Living Statue' for a few nights only; Performer: Miss Addie Leigh; Coming: 'White Star Liner S.S. Titanic Disaster', 'The Myster of the Glass Coffin'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1913-10-06 - 1913-10-06
Summary:

Performance by The Raggedy Two, Carlyn Phillips and Violet Eble; Films screening of 'A Change of Faith', 'The Looking Glass Man', 'The Singer' and 'Battle of Bregalnitza'; Screening of Pathe Gazette

9
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1913-10-07 - 1913-10-07
Summary:

Performance by The Raggedy Two, Carlyn Phillips and Violet Eble; Films screening of 'A Change of Faith', 'The Looking Glass Man', 'The Singer' and 'Battle of Bregalnitza'; Screening of Pathe Gazette; Coming film: 'Her Dreadful Secret'

10
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1915-12-30
Summary:

The progress made in the character of subjects presented in the movies today, makes desirable for all inquiring people to at least attend occasionally. Annoying after-effects on the eyes prevent people from enjoying the social diversion and often the educational advantages. Those who suffer from…

11
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1916-03-02
Summary:

During the year 1915, there has been a distinct falling off regarding Patents applied for in the United Kingdom. There is an invention of Penny-in-the-Slot device for hiring out Opera Glasses, specially devised for Picture Palaces and the cheaper seats of Music Halls and Theatres.

12
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1917-05-19 - 1917-05-19
Summary:

Screening of 'Alsace', adapted from the play by Gaston Leroux and Lucien Camille, featuring Madame Rejane, also Comic films and Gazettes

13
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1917-07-09
Summary:

The article mentioned that they are told that, in Brussels, the cafes and cinemas were crowded during the winter, but they are not told that, owing to the price of coal, it is cheaper to buy a glass of beer or a cinema ticket than to remain at home.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-09-24 - 1919-11-24
Summary:

And your eyes get tired, you should be fitted with accurate glasses for your eyes' sake. N, Lazarus, ophthalmic optician. 28, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-08-07 - 1920-08-07
Summary:

When Select Pictures Corporation chose the great stage success, 'The House of Glass,' as a vehicle for the talents of Clara Kimball Young, they knew that they had secured a play that would give ample scope to her perfect mastery of screen technique in addition to permitting her the use…

16
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-08-07 - 1920-08-09
Summary:

Today at 2.30, 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., Clara Kimball Young in 'The House of Glass,' new Rolin Comedy and Pathe News. At 7.15 p.m., 'The Silent Mystery' episodes 8 and 9.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1921-06-23
Summary:

The death of Mr. W. Friese Greene, inventor of the kinema, brings to an end of a life of vicissitude and tragedy. In his life, he invented a camera for taking moving pictures on photographic glass plates, and produced the roll celluloid film and first projector.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-02-16
Summary:

According to an optician, it is predicted that in the future, four or five films could be projected simultaneously on to the same screen but with a different single colour. By then, audiences could wear the corresponding glasses that admit only the rays of that colour, together with a telephone…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-07-13
Summary:

It is stated by the writer that the moving picture show, as the cheapest and most direct form of theatre show, holds without any doubt the greatest possibilities for influencing the public, whether in education, morals, or sentiment. – The Looking-Glass

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-08-27 - 1923-08-27
Summary:

If you open an umbrella in the house; if you spill the salt; if you break a looking glass; if you walk under a ladder. Illustration included.