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Thursday & Friday next, in conjunction with "The flame of the Yukon". Special starring engagement ... Barrie Marschel and "The kid from Timaru" in motion pictures. Told as the film unfolds by the man who wrote it. Produced under the direction of the author ... playing to thunderous applause and crowded houses everywhere. See the landing at Gallipoli! Wright & Jaques, printers, Auckland [Academy Theatre Waihi, April 25 1918]
- Date
- 1918
- 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.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand] / [Ephemera promoting cinema, movie, film screenings in New Zealand in the period 1916-1919].
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Offset photomechanical prints, Fliers (Printed matter), Offset print of flyer 220 x 141 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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Wright & Jaques Ltd. Thursday & Friday next, in conjunction with "The flame of the Yukon". Special starring engagement ... Barrie Marschel and "The kid from Timaru" in motion pictures. Told as the film unfolds by the man who wrote it. Produced under the direction of the author ... playing to thunderous applause and crowded houses everywhere. See the landing at Gallipoli! Wright & Jaques, printers, Auckland [Academy Theatre Waihi, April 25 1918]. [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]. Ref: Eph-A-CINEMA-1918-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/32200240More information can be found in our terms of use.