A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1918-08-21
Summary:

The Peking Correspondent of The Times recently sent an article about the war film screening in Lanchow-fu in the far West of China, in a large hall of Anhui Club. It was most likely a first moving picture shown for the oriental people in Lanchow-fu. One of the pictures shown represented a group…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-17
Summary:

Arising out of the attempted assassination in Yaumati on Monday of Wong Fook-chi, an ex-intelligence officer of Chan Kwing-ming, the police have arrested a man in the Sun Sun [sic] cinema at West Point. The man is said to be associated in an official capacity with Lau Tsun-wan, a General now…