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Home » Theater Guide » Location » China » Hong Kong » National Theatre

National Theatre

Hong Kong, China
Lockhart Road, Wanchai
, Hong Kong, China
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: Unknown
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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The National Theatre was built on the site of a wood depot in the Wanchai district on the Hong Kong Island two years before World War II. It opened to business on 2nd February, 1940 with a Cantonese language film. The theatre closed its doors temporarily on 9th August, 1940 for adding a balcony in the auditorium and re-opened on 27th October, 1940. It was a neighbourhood theatre and showed Cantonese language and Mandarin language films before the war.

It re-opened at an unknown date after the war and first-run Cantonese language films were shown until the late-1960s. An extensive renovation was undertaken at the theatre in 1968, and first-run Mandarin language and selected English language films were shown afterwards until its closure on 6th March,1973.

I remember watching Cantonese language films at the theatre with my late father as a child in the mid-1960s.

The theatre was a poorly-managed one, and the practice of children urinating on the auditorium floor was often heard of during my childhood.

A residential building was built on the site of the theatre.
Contributed by Raymond Lo

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During the war years,it showed films censored by the Japanese Army.
posted by Suwanti on Oct 17, 2007 at 6:41am
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