Photos favorited by Kinospotter

  • <p>Advertised on February 25th, 1934</p>
  • <p>The ‘Lambra’ Orchestra. Proprietor Herbert Pemberton is third from left (with violin). (Courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association archive.)</p>
  • <p>The original Art Moderne auditorium featured indirect lighting from neon tubing concealed in the coves and the shells around the proscenium, which had a limitless changeable array of colours flooding them from three hidden primary colour tubes in each.</p>
  • <p>Courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association Archive.</p>
  • <p>Scott Paulus photo, November 2020.</p>
  • <p>Scott Paulus photo, November 2020.</p>
  • <p>Stay Safe! (2020)</p>
  • <p>Original etched glass entrance doors, photographed at its opening in November 1937. Courtesy Cinema Theatre Association archive.</p> <p>These doors were removed and thrown onto a rubbish skip when the Odeon was given the ill-fated ‘Zing Treatment’ modernisation in 1967.</p>
  • <p>July 1st, 1953</p>
  • <p>Nice brightly lit entrance foyer leading to the impressive flight of steps leading to the circle. On the right side of the first three steps there is the Odeon Page Boy directing patrons.</p> <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>The large auditorium is lit from the proscenium surround stepped back, finishing with the illuminated tambourine dancing lady.</p> <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>colour view of the stage & proscenium before conversion to a night club</p>
  • <p>Photo taken in June 1936 showing the recently opened Regal cinema by George Coles.</p> <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>A poster on the left advertises the first Ansco Color film – MGM’s western starring Stewart Granger “The Wild North”, which screened in September 1953 at the Wintergarden. However, this colorized photo – courtesy of Townsville City Council Local History Collection – is identified as being taken in 1957.</p>
  • <p>Wintergarden was full to overflowing with Service personnel on the night of 16th July 1944, attending the first concert of an Australian tour ‘singing for the boys’ by world famous soprano Marjorie Lawrence (1907-1979). Her life story was filmed by MGM in 1955 as “Interrupted Melody”.</p>
  • <p>photographed in 1973</p>
  • <p>Exterior by night (1937)</p>