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Premier Theatre and Summer Gardens - 1940

Source - Sunday Times (Perth, WA)- Sun 30 Jun 1940

Caption: “Raycophone” the only Australian 100 per cent reproducing sound invention.

The first suburban theatres to be wired for sound were the New Oxford Theatre at Leederville, and the Premier Theatre at East Perth. The beginning of the talkies in WA. This advert was a reminder that the Premier was the first theatre in the Perth suburbs to install sound, along with it’s neighbor The New Oxford…

Raycophone Sound

Raycophone was perfected by Mr. Ray Allsop, a young Sydney engineer, who came into prominence originally as research engineer for 2BL broadcasting station in Sydney. By June 1937 Raycophone sound-projection systems was installed in 345 theatres.

Contributed by Greg Lynch - .