Mikhail Peppas sent in this scan of an article he wrote in 2009 on the Electric Cinema, Durban’s first cinema. Mikahil lectures in journalism and is an historian interested in cinema. Click the thumbnail below to view an enlargement. Share this:
Can anyone help the pictures in the following gallery which were sent in by my informant Ian Calder Potts (whose family, we soon discovered, were very friendly with my mum’s family in East Griqualand). The scans came from a book … Read More
Regular contributor Gerald Buttigieg has compiled a list of cinemas which existed in Durban in 1938. I have added it to the bottom of the second cinema page here. Share this:
My informant Pat Sligo has chimed in with a couple of things lately. He provided some missing info on the cinemas page and I managed to find a picture of the Prince’s Theatre and Playhouse, which had been missing from … Read More
I received a cool picture of Durban’s cinema land from my informant Pat Sligo featuring the Playhouse, Embassy etc.. It gives me an excuse to remind you about the Cinemas pages here and the second, with the new picture added, is here. … Read More