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Date: 1900-1912

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1900/1912

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1906: The world's pictures. Theatre Royal Christchurch, commencing 28 June 1906. Programme Stonham-Morrison Comapny. Gaumont Chronophone, electrically produced articulating pictures, direct from London and Paris [ca 1906] 1907: West's Pictures and De Groen's Band. NZ tour 1907-8. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, [25 November 1907]. Programme MacMahon's Pictures. "Robbery under arms". Opera House Wellington. 2 November 1907. Programme 1908: "Shackleton's dash for the Pole"; and "Mount Kosciusko!", an Australian landscape under snow. Direction C Spencer; manager J T McIntyre. Town Hall [Wellington] 1910: The New Theatre Manners Street Wellington. Sole direction Macmahon & Donnelly. A great continous show at the new theatre [1910]. Programme MacMahon's Pictures. The living picture of the great fight - Johnson v Ketchell. Opera House Wellington, 24 September 1910 and following evenings. Programme (2 copies, one with red cover, one with blue cover) MacMahons' Pictures (including "The Kelly Gang"). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 1910. Programme National Pictures. Harry Lauder per Chronomegaphone. Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme (2 copies) Macmahon & Carroll's "For the term of his natural life". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1910. Programme Macmahon & Carroll's "For the term of his natural life". Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme Macmahon & Carroll's "The life of Ned Kelly". Opera House Wellington, 25 July 1910. Programme The Gisborne Amusement Co presents West's Pictures. Gisborne, [December?] 1910. Programme Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1910. Programme. Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme (2 copies) Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 1910. Programme (on blue paper) Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries battle", the fight of modern times. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 26 December 1910. Programme Hayward's Pictures. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 10 August [1910] Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 19 October 1910. Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 17 December 1910 (2 copies) 1911: Macmahon Bros. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programme Macmahon and Donnelly's new series of pictures. "A ticket in Tatt's". Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programme The Grand Operatic Photo-Play Co. Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programmes (2 different) Hayward's Enterprises Ltd. Photo plays. West's Pictures, including "King Henry VIII". His Majesty's Theatre, 12-15 July [1911?] American Biograph Company. The latest moving pictures. His Majesty's Theatre Aucland, 7 October [1911]. Programme Royal & Biograph Pictures. Town Hall Stratford, 29 August 1911. Programme no. 1 (Flier / programme) 1912: "Kinemacolor", (Urban-Smith patents), the greatest invention of the century. Theatre Royal Wellington. Promotional pamphlet, ca 1912 Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 32 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1925 - 1927

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1925/1927

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1925: Mary Pickford as "Little Annie Rooney", released by United Artists De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 6th February [1925] De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 27th March [1925] De Luxe and King's, Herbert F Wood, supervisor. Programme for week commencing Friday 1 May [1925] Beaumont Smith presents "The adventures of Algy", a comedy-romance in 6 reels, with Claude Dampier [and] Bathie Stuart. Presented by the New Zealand Film Archive with music composed by Dorothy Buchanan, 1986. [Original release 1925] "Havoc"; tremendous drama of society woven into a realistic war background, [with] George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, Margaret Livingstone, Walter McGrail, Edythe Chapman. A William Fox production [1925] The film superb, "Variety", a U.F.A. masterpiece starring Eurpoe's three greatest screen artists: Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti, Warwick Ward [1925]. Special Kerepehi Hall, tonight 1926: Movie stories, published weekly. "What price glory" featuring Victor McLaglen, Dolores Del Rio & Edmund Lowe. The story of the William Fox masterpiece. First National presents Sir John Martin Harvey in the twelve-reel screen masterpiece, "The only way", and also on stage, Frances Scully presents the Sunbeam Children from Sydney in "The wedding of Baby Kerr". Grand Opera House Wellington. 2-10 June [1926] (2 copies) The National & Lyric news. Coming: "When the door opened" by James Oliver Curwood. Vol. 11, no. 11, 21 January 1926. Adolph Zukor & Jesse Lasky present Cecil B De Mille's "Feet of Clay". The real story of the married flapper. A gorgeous ultra-modern love-drama. A Paramount picture. [Flyer. ca 1926?] The Majestic Continuous. Week commencing Friday May 7th [1926]. Cover design by Carlton Studio. The Strand Continuous. Week commencing Friday April 9th [1926] The Strand Continuous. Week commencing Friday May 21st [1926]. Cover design by Carlton Studio. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L Lasky present Florenz Ziegfeld's "Kid boots", starring Eddie Cantor with Clara Bow - Billie Dove - Lawrence Gray. A Frank Tuttle production [released 1926] Adolph Zukor and Jesse L Lasky present Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in "We're in the navy now". An Edward Sutherland production. Chester Conklin and Tom Kennedy. A Paramount Picture [released 1926]. Kerepehi, Wed June 22nd [1927]. Pamphlet The Regent, the theatre beautiful. grand official opening, 10 December 1926, Wellington. Souvenir programme 1927: De Luxe and King's Theatres (Wellington) Programme, week commencing Friday 30th Dec[ember 1927]. Enough to make a cat laugh. "Charley's aunt" with Syd Chaplin. Released exclusively by Famous Lasky Film Service Limited (Paramount Pictures) [1925]. Special Kerepehi Hall, Wed 9th Feb [1927] "Wings", a Paramount Picture, with Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen. Directed by William Wellman. A Lucien Hubbard production. Kerepehi [1927 release date] Whakatane Films Ltd. Cming like a meteor to show the world that New Zealand CAN make a picture! "The Te Kooti trail". 1927. Richard Dix in "Shanghai bound", with Mary Brian. A Paramount Picture [release date 1927] "The garden of Allah", a Rex Ingram production starring Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer special production [release date 1927] Hayward's Town Hall Avondale. Personally guaranteed programme 11 and 13 June [1927] - includes the Marx brothers in "Monkey business" and "The rainbow trail" with George O'Brien (Flier). Quantity: 22 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1913-01

Description: Programme includes Pathe Gazette, a drama called "Retribution", a comedy called "All the fault of Jane", The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a scenic called "Through Venice in a gondola", a feature drama called "His secret", and a comedy called"The new baby". Many advertisements throughout for Auckland businesses. Other Titles - Buildings Date estimated as 1913, because "All the fault of Jane" was being shown in New Zealand at that time. Quantity: 1 programme.. Physical Description: Letterpress and offset, cover and six leaves, 184 x 122 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1928/1929

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1928: George Bancroft in "The drag net" [1928 release date] Joseph M Schenck presents Herbert Brenon's "Sorrell and son", by Warwick Deeping. United Artists Picture - with H B Warner, Anna Q Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Nils Asther, Carmel Myers. [1928? (1927 release date)] The greatest actor on stage or screen. Emil Jannings "The patriot", a Paramount picture. Special Sat next, Kerepehi [1928 release date] Charlie Chaplin is here. Hey children! State Theatre ... [1928 (or 1923, or 1934)] Ronald Colman & Vilma Banky. "The magic flame". Released by United Artists Australasia Limited. Aurora Theatre Paeroa, April 1928 Clara Bow in "Ladies of the mob". A Paramount picture. Sat next Kerepehi. [1928] The Regent Theatre beautiful. Magazine progamme. Week commencing Friday Nov 16 [1928] Wlliam Fox presents the film sensation of 1928! "Sunrise", with Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien. The New Zealand Film Archive 1985 [original NZ release date 1928] Charlie Chaplin. "The circus". United Artists picture. Aurora Theatre Paeroa, Aug 1928. Cosmopolitan Corporation presents Marion Davies, Charles Major, directed by Robert Vignola. "When knighthood was in flower". A Paramount picture. [1928?] Cinema Art Films present "Faust", with Camilla Horn and Emil Jannings. Kere[pehi], Tuesday 3rd April 1928. A souvenir of New Zealand's magnificent atmospheric Theatre De Luxe, the New Empire (to be renamed). Dunedin, Sept 21st 1928 A.D. Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky present Pola Negri in "Hotel Imperial", a Paramount picture. A Mauritz Stiller production with James Hall and George Siegmann. Kerepehi Hall, Saturday 25th [1928] 1929: The Regent Theatre beautiful magazine programme, Regent weekly, vol. 2 no 43, 11 June 1929. Maurice Chevalier in "Innocents of Paris", a Paramount picture. Aurora Theatre Paeroa, 4-7 March [19299 release date] Maurice Chevalier in "Innocents of Paris", a Paramount picture. Grand Opera House, commencing Friday 9th August 1929 (2 copies one with blue cover, one with pink cover) The Regent review, the official organ of Williamson Films (N.Z.) Ltd. Vo. 1, no 33, 15 November 1929. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L Lasky present "The canary murder case", a Paramount picture with William Powell, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur. [1929 release date] "Street girl"; she's not what you think! With Betty Compson, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks. A Wesley Ruggles production. Auroroa Theatre Paeroa, 17-20 May [1929 release date] Warner Bros present George Arliss in "Disraeli". A Vitaphone all-talking picture. Kerepehi, 16 & 18 August [1929 release date] Corinne Griffith as Lady Hamilton supreme beauty of her time in "The divine lady". First National Pictures. With H B Warner, Victor Varconi, Marie Dressler, Ian Keith. Kerepehi, Sat April 11 [1929 release date] "Gold diggers of Broadway". 1929 St James Theatre O-o-o-o-h "The Terror" from the play by Edgar Wallace. A Warner Bros production. Kerepehi, Sat Nov 29; Sally Sat Dec 6. 1929]. Quantity: 21 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1913 - 1915

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1913/1915

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: Farewell! Grand Opera House, Friday 23rd October [1914]. Absolutely farewell appearance of Sir Douglas Mawson, K.B. and his wonderful moving pictures. Evening Post Print - 54718. Globe Theatre, Queen Street. Programme for three days and nights ending Saturday March 15 [1913] "Kissing Cup", the greatest racing picture ever screened, produced by the Hepworth Company. The Opera House, for three nights only, commencing March 28th, 1914. NZ Free Lance print, Wellington [1914] Lyric Theatre (Wellington). Antony and Cleopatra. Accompanied by the largest picture orchestra in Australasia. Easily superior to mighty "Quo Vadis", and the greatest picture the world has ever seen. [1914] Lyric Theatre, Symonds Street. Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd. Programmes for the weeks ending: 7 June 1913, 5 July 1913, 1 November 1913, 31 January 1914. King's Theatre, Wellington. Hayward's Pictures. 22 November 1913. (Showing "With Captain Scott to the South Pole") King's Theatre, Karangahape Road. Fuller's Wide World Pictures. Programme for week commencing 10 February 1913. King's Theatre, Auckland. Fuller's Wide World Pictures and full orchestral band. Programme for week commencing Monday January 12, 1914? King's Theatre Wellington. Hayward's Pictures. Programme. Week ending 14th March 1914. (Showing "The Miracle", by Max Reinhardt). King's Theatre, Wellington. Hayward's Pictures. Week ending 3rd January 1914. (Showing "The last days of Pompeii"). Annette Kellerman in "Neptune's daughter". People's Picture Palace (Wellington). [1914-1915] (1914 release date) Royal Albert Hall, Auckland. West's Pictures. Programme for the week ending Saturday 11 October, 1913? "The vendetta" [1914]. Palace Pictures, Tuesday 12 October [1915]. With "Back to the Kitchen" [1914] and "The Birth of Flowers. Also includes a postcard ca 1914 for the Empire Theatre, Auckland (see individual record) His Majesty's (Wanganui). Grand opening of His Majesty's, the finest and most up-to-date NZ theatre outside the metropolis. Manager Philip Hereford. Programme (incl. "Quo vadis"). [ca 1913?] Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 17 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on brochures, pamphlets and fliers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size. Provenance: One programme purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2007.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1919-01

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of Norma Talmadge, below a picture of the outisde of the Strand Theatre. An issue of the "Strand Picture Mirror". Other Titles - The Strand Picture Mirror Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded pamphlet 225 x 145 mm.

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Whitcombe, Claud Raoul, -1952

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1913-01-10

Description: Shows smiling man in leopard skin, laurel wreath and sandals, standing beside a scroll containing text of advertisement for restaurant, which sells icecream, fruit salad, cream, and iced drinks. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Extended Title - In Queen's Theatre (Auckland). Programme for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, November 27, 28, 29 [1913], page 10 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - C R Whitcombe Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of programme.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 184 x 122 mm.

Date: 1912 - 1914

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1914-01

Description: Postcard advertising the Empire Theatre, an Auckland cinema. Main photograph shows a view of the interior, seen from the back of the circle looking over the stalls towards the screen. An oval inset photograph at top left shows the exterior of the building seen from the street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 89 x 139 mm.

Date: 1939 - 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Wright & Jaques Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1939-01

Description: Programme card listing films to be shown at Hayward's Avondale, including present and future films. The list of current films includes: Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in "Boys' town", Boris Karloff in "Mr Wong, detective", Claude Rains in "White banners", Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in "Sweethearts", Jack Holt in "Trapped in the sky"; "Exposed", "Ambush"; Laurel and Hardy in "Fra Diavolo"; "King of newsboys", "Fast and loose", "Heart of the North", "Arrest Bulldog Drummond:, "The citadel", Ronald Colman in "If I were king"; "Strange case of Dr Mead", Tyrone Power in "Suez". Inside double spread advises patrons to book at Mrs Whale's - phone 47-783. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Card, 202 x 152 mm, folded to 202 x 76 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2000

Date: 1938

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Wright & Jaques Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1938-01

Description: Programme card listing films to be shown at Hayward's Avondale, shows a front cover illustration of a couple dancing on the street in the moonlight in front of Hayward's Theatre. The programme lists present and future films. The list of current films includes: "Vogues of 1938", Deanna Durbin in "Mad about music", "Radio City revels, "Wise girl with Ray Milland, Jack Holt in "Under suspicion", "Banjo on my knee", "Everybody's doing it", George Formby in "I see ice", Paul Muni in "The life of Emile Zola", "Off to the races", Bobby Breen in "Hawaii calls", Kent Taylor and Fay Wray in "The jury's secret". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Card, 205 x 152 mm, folded to 205 x 76 mm.