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Robin Gee commented about Please Open - A short documentary on The Crystal Palace Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand on Sep 6, 2015 at 10:35 pm

There are many documentaries and stories about theatres closing down because of digitalisation, our story is not about that. Our story is about a rather unique building, one of Auckland’s oldest theatres, standing on one of Auckland’s busiest suburban roads, passed by hundreds everyday, and potentially just slowly fading away…all in 3 minutes!! This short documentary was made as part of the Loading Docs intiative 2015 …

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Robin Gee commented about Crystal Palace Theatre on Sep 6, 2015 at 5:53 pm

Recently Karl Sheridan and I completed a short documentary on The Crystal Palace as part of loadingdocs (a short format documentary initiative http://loadingdocs.net). We opened the theatre up daily to give locals the opportunity to come in and share their stories and to have a little look around. We hosted a major screening event of a couple of local films that had screened in the theatre years ago, one with a live soundtrack from local band The Echo Ohs. The event was also supported by a local brewery, Bach Brewing.
It was a huge success and signaled the launch of the filming of our documentary which we have just recently completed. Over the next few months we hope to post more information and images about this theatre and hope to create a resource about it and it’s history. Meanwhile feel free to check out, imbed and share our doco “Please Open” … https://vimeo.com/132294910

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Robin Gee commented about Crystal Palace Theatre on Mar 1, 2015 at 2:38 pm

Great little doco Tony cheers…

We’re making a doco for Loading Docs over the next few months …it will be accompanied with an on line resource … as part of it I hope to open a space in the theatre to record interviews and share stories about the theatre during March 2015 info can be found here… https://www.facebook.com/crystalpalacetheatre?fref=nf

and a link to our crowd funding campaign to be run through March 2015 can be found here… http://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/please-open-the-crystal-palace-documentary

Here’s the facebook page being run by the current projectionist and currently the most direct link to the theatre… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Palace-Mt-Eden/570338429673565?fref=nf

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Robin Gee commented about Crystal Palace Theatre on Jan 21, 2015 at 2:01 pm

There are now regular (monthly) screenings of The Room at the theatre and recently the annual 24 hour Movie Marathon was held here. I lit the interior for the event and will post pictures or a link to images soon. I am about to film a short documentary on this theatre, anyone with any information should feel free to post here and I’ll work out how to get in touch.