Motion picture theatres - New Zealand - Waikato Region
Atkins & Mitchell :Proposed picture theatre, Te Aroha, for T H Billing, esq. 1924-1925.
Date: 1924 - 1925
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-029-001/007-1
Description: Includes stalls, foyer, and circle plans, foundation and ceiling plans, longitudinal section and cross-section, elevations, detail of cross-section. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on wax paper 580 x 760 mm.
Split image showing two views of Hamilton City
Date: [Circa 1924]
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-2132-F
Description: Split image with two scenes in Hamilton taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1924. A: On the left a two-storeyed building with the offices of T. Mandeno Jackson upstairs, and the Commercial Bank of Australia downstairs. The next building is a single-storeyed wooden building, Almadale Private Hotel behind a hedge. Two men and a small girl are standing in the gateway to the hotel. On the right is the Livingstone Chambers two-storeyed building, which includes the Strand Picture Theatre, Hunter's Crown Clothing and the Goodrich Service Station. B: On the right the three-storeyed Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company Ltd (established in 1907 and built in 1918) with shops and businesses on the ground floor, including J.N. Irvine, dentist. Several cars and bicycles are parked outside the shops. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.2 cm
Thursday & Friday next, in conjunction with "The flame of the Yukon". Special starring ...
Date: 1918
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]
By: Wright & Jaques Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1918-01
Description: Flyer advertises a showing of a film authorised by Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, involving 5000 New Zealand soldiers, and based on Barrie Marschel's poem "The Kid from Timaru", about a soldier with the surname Kidd. Barrie Marschel recited his poem "as the films unfold". The flyer states that the film had already had seasons in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The front of the flyer shows a reproduction of a advertisement for the movie with an oval portrait of Barrie Marschel in a straw hat. The border of the flyer shows a design based on laurels. The verso reproduces the poem "The kid from Timaru". A rubber stamp shows the name of the name, place, and theatre where the screening was to take place (Waihi Academy Theatre, 25 April 1918 - ie Anzac Day) "The flame of the Yukon" was a 1917 silent film starring Dorothy Dalton and directed by Charles Miller. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print of flyer 220 x 141 mm.
Photographs of Hamilton buildings, 2009
Date: 2009
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000522
Description: Photographs of Hamilton buildings taken in 2009 Quantity: 49 digital photograph(s).