79. State Theatre

Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955

1-16. [Making the Cinesound-Ken Hall film "Thoroughbred", including publicity photographs of Helen Twelvetrees with Ken Hall, Pontiac car in front of Cinesound, her leading man, and with a horse and an elephant, between 4 December 1935-April 1936]
17-18. [Shirley Ann Richards and head of film studio (?) speak to the crowd at the premiere of film "Tall timbers", 1937]
19. [Odeon National Cinema Club at Drummoyne Odeon, 1948, (which was showing Popeye cartoon, "Orphan of the wilderness" and a serial)]
20. [Norman Rydge at the opening of the Odeon Children's Club, Petersham Odeon, 1948]
21. [Crowd outside an Arcadia cinema showing "McCohens and Kellys in Scotland", ca.1930]
22. [Two women (one in 18th century dress) and man at The Movie Ball, 1929 (?), Palais Royal (frame no.7844 home & away videodisc)]
23. [George Webster, left, speaks on the opening night, King's Theatre, Mosman, 1937-8 (other photographs in this series at frame nos.8724-8733 Home & away videodisc)]
24. [Film "Lost horizon" arrives from the US on the liner Mariposa, March 1937]
25. [Conductor] Maurice Gutteridge at the Regent Theatre, May 1937 (frame no.14785 Home & away videodisc)
26. [Presentation of an illuminated address to Stuart F. Doyle, Managing Direstor, Union Theatres by Australian Cinema Pioneers, Carlton Hotel, 12 Aug 1937;  present were Stan Crick, Herc McIntyre, Stanley Wright, A.N. Williamson, S.J. Parry, Tim Wiseman and Bill Szarka (frame no.8538 Home & away videodisc)]
27. [Men and a woman at the door of an express train carriage]
28. [Star Anna May Wong]
29. [Woman (Fay Compton ?) lighting man's cigarette from her own]
30. [Women cleaning, repairing and rewinding films]
31. [Ushers and one nurse line up in the foyer, Capitol Theatre]
32. [Hoyts ushers and candy tray boy (?) in line on the footpath]
33-38. [American all-girl band "Ingenues" with the "World's first trackless train" advertising MGM films, Stanley and Yurong Streets, Martin Place and the Domain, ca.1930]
39. [Electrical and projection team in a large city cinema]
40-42. [Installing Wurlizter organs in cinemas]
43. [Dangar, Gedye & Co. display of Lister shearing machine and usherettes in the foyer of a cinema]
44-45. [Painting dept. of a cinema watch the painting of a gangster portrait]
46. [Painting dept. backstage with cardboard cutouts and a devil or Batman head]
47. [Executives inspect behind the screen]
48. [Projectionists working a projector]
49. [Cameraman, motion picture camera and bathing belles]
50. [Woman making a speech to a microphone;  on a billboard a poster for Spencer Tracy in "Dante's Inferno" (1935)]
51. Shooting a scene [on the studio set for the house "Jerseyville"] for "Granddad Rudd" at the opening of the extension of Cinesound studios by the Premier on Friday night
52. [Shooting a scene in front of a filmset house]
53. [Crowd of mainly men around a man on stilts advertising "Street scene" at the Capitol, 1931]
54. [Studio sound man behind glass and poster for Fox Movietone News, vol.2, no.33]
55-56. [Models dressed as rickshaw drivers and women passengers to advertise the Universal film "Shanghai lady", Haymarket Theatre foyer and Botanic Gardens (?)] 
57. [Man holding balloons advertising "Sally" at the State Theatre, 1930]
58. [Hoyts (?) ushers outside Haymarket Theatre showing "Mary murder"]
59. [Empress Theatre tableau float for the Movie Ball]
60-61. [Lyceum theatre tableau floats (no.61 representing Al Jolson ?) for Movie Ball]
62. [Film executives on stage of a theatrette in evening dress with cutouts of Mickey Mouse]
63. [Men in a studio with microphone and two models dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse]
64. [Union Theatres float for Movie Ball]
65-67. [Cummings and Wilson Australian made cinema projector]
68. [Palace Theatre, lit at night, showing "Dracula" with Nat Madison]
69. [Frank Cridland trucks line up in Market Street to deliver the State Theatre Wurlitzer organ in boxes]
70. [Installing a Wurlitzer theatre organ]
71. [Blower for a Wurlitzer theatre organ]
72-76. [State Theatre under construction (no.75 may be another theatre)]
77-92. [State Theatre, 1927]
93. [Hinkler Beacon which was on top of the State Theatre]
94. [State Theatre projectors and biobox ?]
95-98. [Furniture and furnishings which may be State Theatre ?]
99-101. [Electrical equipment in city theatre ?]
102-104. [Capitol Theatre interior]
105. [Outdoor advertisement and neon lights on Capitol Theatre seen from Parker Street]
106. [Billboard advertising the Capitol Theatre]
107. [Porters Aerial Transport Gypsy Moth biplane in the foyer of the Prince Edward Theatre advertising a Memorial Air Meeting, Saturday 29 November and the Paramount film "With Byrd at the South Pole"]
108. [Projectors and biobox]
109. [Manager's office of a cinema ?]
110-112. [Hoyts cinema foyer advertising 20th Century Fox films "4 men and a prayer" with Loretta Young and Richard Greene and "Vivacious lady" with James Stewart and Ginger Rogers (possibly Balmain)]
113-114. [Proscenium of unidentified theatre with Greek/Regency style decoration]
115-117. [Entrance foyer, stairs, box office and "Three graces", Regent Theatre]
118. [Facade, Arcadia Cinema, Lidcombe]
119-121. [Double Bay Vogue, 1938, interior and exterior]
122. [Century Theatre, 1938]
123-126. [Interiors], Lindfield Kings, 1938
127-130. [Interior, Victory Theatre, Sydney]
131-136. [Interior and exterior, Minerva Theatre, Potts Point (no.133 is NCY30/531, no.134 is NCY30/529, no.135 is NCY30/535 and no.136 is NCY30/530)]
137. [State Theatre laneway ?]
138. [Radio studio in the old Globe Theatre, George Street]
139. [Exterior, Victory Theatre, George Street]
140-146. [Interior, Haymarket Theatre, George Street]
147-149. [Exterior and interior, Savoy Theatre, Hurstville]
150-151. [Exterior and interior, Olympia Theatre, Annandale]
152. [Interior, Jewel Theatre, Bankstown]
153-154. [Interior and exterior, King's Theatre, Lindfield]
155. [Interior, Lindfield Theatre]
156. [Roxy Theatre, Parramatta]
157. [Foyer, new King's Theatre, Mosman]
158. [Foyer, Hoyts Theatre, Ashfield]
159-160. [Exterior, Szarka Bros. Enmore Theatre, showing "Shanghai lady" and "Bulldog Drummond"]
161-163. [Interior, Crystal Palace Theatre, George Street]
164. [Exterior, King's Theatre, Clovelly]
165. [Interior, Regent Theatre, Bankstown]
166-167. [Exterior, Century Theatre, Sydney (and Crystal Palace Arcade)]
168-169. [Interior and exterior, Astor Theatre, Burwood]
170-171. [Box office (note swastika decoration), and dress circle foyer, Collaroy Theatre, 1938]
172-174. [Interior and exterior, King's Theatre, Bondi Beach, 1937]
175. [Circle foyer, Hoyts Theatre, Rozelle]
176-178. [Interior, old Lyceum Theatre]
179. [Facade, Parramatta Theatre, 1920's]
180. [Auditorium ceiling, Royal Theatre, Lakemba]
181-182. [Kings Cross Theatre, 1927-1931 and ca.1935-1937]
183-192. [Interior, Lyric Theatre, George Street, 1920's]
193-197. [Interior, Lyric Theatre, remodelled in Art Deco style, 1937]
198-200. [Foyer, King's Theatre, Bondi Beach, 1937 (see also nos.172-174)]
201. [Foyer and box office, Crescent Theatre, Fairfield]
202. [Foyer, 2UW Theatrette, State Shopping Block (NCY31/743 or 750)]
203-205. [Plaza Theatre under construction, completed and floral tributes from the film companies in the foyer]
206. [Foyer, Astor Theatre, Burwood]
207-212. [Interior and exterior, Regal Theatre, Gosford]
213. [Gosford Hall, opposite the railway station, showing Gosford Picture Coy. Wed. & Sat.]
214. [Unidentified theatre foyer featuring Art deco rose pattern carpet (possibly Bondi Road Hoyts)]
215. [Candy bar and circle foyer, Century Theatre]
216. [Stairs and box office, Century Theatre]
217. [Full house in an unidentified Art deco theatre]
218. [Dress circle and Art deco wall and ceiling, Odeon Theatre, Campsie]

79. State Theatre

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