Regent Theatre

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On 27th December 1928 backstage at the Regent, Western Electric technician Arthur W. Edmunds (in a light fawn suit) explains to a group of journalists the porous nature of the screen needed for sound presentation. Behind are blankets of felt designed to deaden any sound echo. They were also shown the projection room, and treated to a presentation of two ‘sound on film’ short subjects from the opening program: James A. Fitzpatrick’s “In a Music Shoppe” and a newsreel featuring Mussolini speaking in Rome. The Regent sound installation work had been completed Sunday 23rd December. Hoyts boss F. W. Thring viewed the program with Fox topper Stanley S. Crick shortly after midnight on 24th December. It was screened for the Commonwealth Film Censor later that morning.