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Durban cinemas

3 Feb 2015

Electric Cinema

by Allan Jackson | posted in: Mini Memories | 1

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:

Durban cinemas, Electric Theatre
27 Nov 2013

What date?

by Allan Jackson | posted in: InfoRequests, Pictures | 5

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

Durban cinemas, Electric Theatre, Payne Brothers
4 Feb 2013

New cinema info

by Allan Jackson | posted in: New Articles | 33

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:

Durban cinemas
9 Sep 2012

Cinemas and stuff

by Allan Jackson | posted in: Mini Memories | 26

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

Durban cinemas, Harvard, Metro, Playhouse
18 Nov 2011

Cinema land

by Allan Jackson | posted in: Pictures | 0

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

Durban cinemas, Embassy, films, Metro, Playhouse, Princes

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