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Electric Theatre

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

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by Allan Jackson | posted in: InfoRequests, Pictures | 4

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

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