Popular screening
Saturday 8 October 2022 |
Camera Obscura,
This flier promotes a matinee screening of ‘educational, instructive, scenic and amusing pictures’ at the King’s Theatre on November 4 1911. It is stated that ‘every child will receive a souvenir’, although what that souvenir was we don’t know. The pictures shown included scenes of Russia and the Solomon Islands, a documentary about a lignite mine and scenes from an industrial strike that was taking place at the time in England. Newspaper reports from the time state they were all well received. The King’s Theatre was housed in the King’s Chambers on Victoria Street between 1911 and 1922. This building no longer exists, replaced by the current TSB Building, but the neighbouring King’s Building remains.
